proke

See also: pro ke

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊk

Verb

proke (third-person singular simple present prokes, present participle proking, simple past and past participle proked)

1. (obsolete) To poke; to thrust.
   • 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC:

     The Queene ever at his elbow to pricke and proke

See also

• prog
• proag
• progue

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “proke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Koper, Perko, Repko, poker