Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Poker \Pok"er\, n. [From {Poke} to push.]
   1. One who pokes.

   2. That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal
      bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.

   3. A poking-stick. --Decker.

   4. (Zo["o]l.) The poachard. [Prov. Eng.]

   {Poker picture}, a picture formed in imitation of
      bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood
      with a heated poker or other iron.

Poker \Pok"er\, n. [Of uncertain etymol.]
   A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about
   1835 in the Southwestern United States. --Johnson's Cyc.

Poker \Pok"er\, n. [Cf. Dan. pokker the deuce, devil, also W.
   pwci, a hobgoblin, bugbear, and E. puck.]
   Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to
   haunt the darkness; a bugbear. [Colloq. U. S.]

Source : WordNet®

poker
     n 1: fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to
          stir a fire [syn: {stove poker}, {fire hook}, {salamander}]
     2: any of various card games in which players bet that they
        hold the highest-ranking hand [syn: {poker game}]