Poker picture, a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings,
by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron.
Fairholt.
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.
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.]
Pok"er*ish, a. Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a
pokerish place. [Colloq. U. S.]
There is something pokerish about a deserted dwelling.
Lowell.