From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Poachard \Poach"ard\ (p[=o]ch"[~e]rd), n. [From {Poach} to
stab.] [Written also {pocard}, {pochard}.] (Zool.)
(a) A common European duck ({Aythya ferina}); -- called also
{goldhead}, {poker}, and {fresh-water widgeon}, or
{red-headed widgeon}.
(b) The American redhead, which is closely allied to the
European poachard.
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{Red-crested poachard} (Zool.), an Old World duck ({Branta
rufina}).
{Scaup poachard}, the scaup duck.
{Tufted poachard}, a scaup duck ({Aythya cristata}, or
{Fuligula cristata}), native of Europe and Asia.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Poker \Pok"er\, n. [From {Poke} to push.]
1. One who pokes.
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2. That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal
bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
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3. A poking-stick. --Decker.
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4. (Zool.) The poachard. [Prov. Eng.]
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{Poker picture}, a picture formed in imitation of
bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood
with a heated poker or other iron. --Fairholt.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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Note: A poker hand is played with a poker deck, composed of
fifty-two cards, of thirteeen values, each card value
being represented once in each of four "suits", namely
spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. The game is played
in many variations, but almost invariably the stage of
decision as to who wins occurs when each player has
five cards (or chooses five cards from some larger
number available to him). The winner usually is the
player with the highest-valued hand, but, in some
variations, the winner may be the player with the
lowest-valued hand. The value of a hand is ranked by
hand types, representing the relationships of the cards
to each other. [The hand types are ranked by the
probability of receiving such a hand when dealt five
cards.] Within each hand type the value is also ranked
by the values of the cards. The hand types are labeled,
in decreasing value: five of a kind; royal flush;
straight flush; four of a kind; full house (coll. full
boat, or boat); flush; straight; three of a kind; two
pairs; one pair; and, when the contending players have
no hands of any of the above types, the player with the
highest-valued card wins -- if there is a tie, the
next-highest-valued card of the tied players determines
the winner, and so on. If two players have the same
type of hand, the value of the cards within each type
determines the winner; thus, if two players both have
three of a kind (and no other player has a higher type
of hand), the player whose three matched cards have the
highest card value is the winner.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poker
n 1: fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to
stir a fire [syn: {poker}, {stove poker}, {fire hook},
{salamander}]
2: any of various card games in which players bet that they hold
the highest-ranking hand [syn: {poker}, {poker game}]
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
poker /pokər/
poker
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