What does "poke" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve. To boy a pig a poke (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it. Camden.
2. 3.To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire. He poked John, and said "Sleepest thou " Chaucer.
3. 4.To thrust with the horns; to gore.
4. 5.Etym: [From 5th Poke, 3.] To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox. [Colloq. U. S.] To poke fun, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. [Colloq.] -- To poke fun at, to make a butt of; to ridicule. [Colloq.]
5. 6.To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about. A man must have poked into Latin and Greek. Prior.
6. 7.The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs. Ld. Lytton.
7. 8.A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.
8. 9.A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward. [U.S.] Poke bonnet, a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.