poake

Noun

poke (plural pokes)

1. A prod, jab, or thrust.
2. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
   • The slowness of this stupid poke tortures me to death.1865, Adolphe Belot ·, The Cup and the Lip. A Comedy in Five Acts., page 38
3. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
   • I see you shaking your head at me, mother, and reminding me of 'That mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me;' but I don't believe I go on so; if I have nothing to say I keep still, and you'd better be a stupid poke, which I often feel myself, than waste the time with such trash.1871, Mary Webster McClain, Daisy Ward's Work, page 112
4. An old, worn-out horse.
   • It was feared the dear old poke I had been riding could not keep up with the rest on this long day's journey: so I had "the cook's horse," who did not understand my method of pulling my dear old beast's head from the edge of the ravine gently with my bridle.1872, Edward Everett Hale, Old and New - Volume 6, page 686
5. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
   • I find from their testimony , which was not contradicted , that the placing of such a poke upon such a colt in such a pasture is not considered dangerous, and that farmers are accustomed so to poke their own horses, but that they are not accustomed to put pokes on or 'hamper' horses owned by other...1883, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Vermont, page 70
6. (dated) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
   • […] everywhere you see listings festooned with Goto statements and peppered with peeks and pokes.1984, Electronics & Wireless World, volume 90, page 6

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