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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pok·er n.
 1. One who pokes.
 2. That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
 3. A poking-stick.
 4. Zool. The poachard. [Prov. Eng.]
 Poker picture, a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Xy·lo·py·rog·ra·phy n.  The art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also wood burning and poker painting.  See Poker picture, under Poker.
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