proke
See also: pro ke
English
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -əʊk
Verb
editproke (third-person singular simple present prokes, present participle proking, simple past and past participle proked)
- (obsolete) To poke or 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
editReferences
edit- “proke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.