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poker

42 4.2

A metal rod with a handle for moving logs in a fire

noun
/ˈpoʊkər/

: atizador

I dropped the fireplace poker.
fireplace poker
hot poker
red-hot poker

Another guy, they burnt him with a poker or, or they're in a club.

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Examples

Robbins, he grabbed the poker and... saved my life.

The Rainbow Tribe (2008)
And, in turning, saw me standing with the poker in my hands.

Fiction book (1994)
You pick up that poker and put it in the fire.

Fiction book (1994)
There's a metal poker thing right there.

Haunt (2019)
I knew I had hold of a red-hot poker... and the time to drop it was before it burned my hand off.

Double Indemnity (1944)
Lyman Mays prodded the fire with an iron poker until it sneezed a shower of sparks.

Fiction book (1990)
He carefully adjusted the fire with a long poker to keep it burning brightly.
The blacksmith used a hot poker to shape the glowing metal in the forge.
After the fire died down, she reached for the poker to stir the embers.

Synonyms

salamander

vspoker

Archaic

1 9.9

A long metal rod with a handle used to move and tend a fire

is shorter or unspecified in length for general stirring or adjusting

fire iron

vspoker

1 6.0

A metal tool like a poker or tongs that you use to tend a fire in a fireplace

is a specific stirring rod rather than a general set of fireplace tools

stove poker

vspoker

6.7

A metal rod with a handle for moving burning wood in a stove or fireplace

is more general for stirring or adjusting fires rather than only in stoves

fire hook

vspoker

7.7

A metal rod with a handle used to move burning logs or stir hot embers

is for stirring or adjusting a fire without emphasis on hooking

Compounds

poker game

53 2.7

A card game where players bet on having the best cards

poker player

20 3.0

A person who plays the card game poker, often as a job

poker face

Informal

12 4.8

A face that shows no feeling so others cannot tell what you feel

strip poker

Offensive

5 7.1

A poker game where players take off clothes when they lose

poker chip

4 3.0

A small round disk that stands for money in card games like poker

red-hot poker

1 8.2

A tall garden plant with long spikes of bright red or orange flowers

poker hand

1 3.0

A set of five cards a player receives to try to win against others

draw poker

1 4.2

A type of poker where players discard some cards and get new ones to improve their hand

straight poker

Jargon

1 5.8

A poker game where each player gets five face down cards and cannot take any new ones

stud poker

Jargon

1 6.3

A poker game where players get some cards face down and some face up, with betting after each card

penny ante poker

Informal

5.3

A casual card game played for very small amounts of money

poker alumroot

Specialized

9.9

A plant with tough heart-shaped leaves at the base and tall stalks of clustered greenish-white flowers

poker heuchera

Specialized

9.9

A long-lived plant with heart-shaped leaves at the base and pale greenish flowers on tall stalks from western North America

poker plant

South African

8.5

A tall plant with red flower spikes that gardeners grow

sea poker

Specialized

9.9

A small thin fish with bony plates that lives in deep northern Pacific waters

stove poker

6.7

A metal rod with a handle for moving burning wood in a stove or fireplace

Surface Forms

poker singular

pokers plural

Morphology

poker = poke (transparent) = poke + er

The word is a regular agent/instrument noun formed from 'poke' + '-er', and the fire-stirring function is directly predictable from the base verb.

Etymology

Poker for the metal rod comes from the verb poke, which means 'push' or 'jab', plus the agent -er meaning 'one who'. So a poker is literally a tool for pushing and moving burning logs in a fire.