poke

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To push or jab at, as with a finger or an arm; prod.
• intransitive verb To make (a hole or pathway, for example) by or as if by prodding, elbowing, or jabbing.
• intransitive verb To push; thrust.
• intransitive verb To stir (a fire) by prodding the wood or coal with a poker or stick.
• intransitive verb Slang To strike; punch.
• intransitive verb To make thrusts or jabs, as with a stick or poker.
• intransitive verb To pry or meddle; intrude.
• intransitive verb To search or look curiously in a desultory manner.
• intransitive verb To proceed in a slow or lazy manner; putter.
• intransitive verb To thrust forward; appear.
• noun A push, thrust, or jab.
• noun Slang A punch or blow with the fist.
• noun One who moves slowly or aimlessly; a dawdler.
• idiom (poke fun at) To ridicule in a mischievous manner.
• noun Pokeweed.
• noun A sack; a bag.
• noun A projecting brim at the front of a bonnet.
• noun A large bonnet having a projecting brim.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To thrust or push against; prod, especially with something long or pointed; prod and stir up: as, to poke a person in the ribs.
• To push gently; jog.
• To thrust or push.
• To force as if by thrusting; urge; incite.
• To put a poke on: as, to poke an ox or a pig. See poke, n., 3. [U. S.] To set the plaits of (a ruff).
• To stoop or bend forward in walking.
• To grope; search; feel or push one's way in or as in the dark; also, to move to and fro; dawdle.
• noun A gentle thrust or push, especially with something long or pointed; a prod; a dig.
• noun A poke-bonnet.
• noun A sort of collar or ox-bow from the lower part of which a short pole projects, placed about the neck of a cow or steer in order to prevent it from jumping fences.
• noun A lazy person; a dawdler.
• noun In cricket: A cramped, timid batting stroke.
• noun A batsman who plays in a cramped, over-cautious style.
• noun A pocket; a pouch; a bag; a sack.
• noun A large, wide, bag-like sleeve formerly in vogue. Same as poke-sleeve.
• noun A bag or bladder filled with air and used by fishermen as a buoy.
• noun The stomach or swimming-bladder of a fish.
• noun A cock, as of hay.
• noun A customary unit of weight for wool, 20 hundredweight.
• noun Scrofula.
• noun The small green heron more fully called shitepoke.
• In cricket, to bat in a cramped, over-cautious style.
• noun Same as pokeweed or garget.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A bag; a sack; a pocket.
• noun A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.
• noun (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it.
• intransitive verb To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope.
• noun (Bot.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (Phytolacca decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.
• noun The act of poking; a thrust; a jog.
• noun Slang, U.S. A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.
• noun U.S. A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
• noun a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.