DCHP-2

poke ((1)) 1 † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 n.

  a bag or small sack especially one used in carrying gold dust or nuggets.

  • 1910  Then the girl will pry him loose from his poke. . . .
  • 1954  In two hours he took out two hundred and seventy-eight dollars in fine dust which had sifted out of miners' pokes slapped onto the bar above

• 2 n.

  a sleeping bag.

  • 1936  . . . he dressed quickly, hung the canvas poke in a balsam for convenient reference that evening, and hurried to the cabin.
  • 1953  The sergeant cooked thick caribou collops on the primus plate and made scones, and they ate. After they had put out the primus and lighted the sea-oil lamp, they leaned back on their pokes.