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We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?' (Switched)

Dec 18th 2009 3:36PM Stewart is right. My Grandother would say 'Go fetch me a paper poke! or a cloth poke. It is the act of putting something into. or the motion of :. You poke it in a bag, paper sack, bucket;etc. Being 81 years young, I still use the word poke around my kids, Grand kids and Great Grand kids. They laugh and I have to explain what poke means. I think it was derived from the word poker, as used to poke the burning wood in a fire place or outdoor wash pot, when boiling work clothes to get them clean or oiling down hog fat to render the LARD out. As a small boy 8 to 10 years old, that was my job to keep the fires poked under the wash pot and/or add fire wood.