English Dictionary

poke

/pəʊk/

noun

(now regional) A sack or bag. / 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276:

I carried my lunch in a poke.

意味（1）

(now regional) A sack or bag.

意味（2）

1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276:

When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke.

意味（3）

1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia:

And suddainly vntyes the Poke,

Which out of it sent such a smoke,

As ready was them all to choke,

And suddainly vntyes the Poke, Which out of it sent such a smoke, As ready was them all to choke, So greeuous was the pother […]

意味（4）

1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573:

… and as to shape, a nightmare has as much. Under the poke and the muff-box, the face sometimes entirely disappears …

意味（5）

2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138:

She did not eat blood-oranges. Her maw gived her one in a poke and she was going to throw it in the bin, Oh it is all black.

意味（6）

A long, wide sleeve.

意味（7）

(Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.