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Poke out
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- 1 To be barely visible past an obstruction or obstructions; to protrude. intransitive
"1886, Wilkie Collins, The Evil Genius, London: Chatto & Windus, Volume 1, Before the Story, Part 4, p. 41, Here’s the Queen, my dears, in her gilt coach, drawn by six horses. Do you see her sceptre poking out of the carriage window? She governs the nation with that."
- 2 reach outward in space wordnet
- 3 To emerge from behind, in, or under something. intransitive
"As they gazed, a white face, wet with the sweat of fear, poked out and stared down upon them with eyes in which the late terror still lived."
- 4 To cause (something) to protrude or emerge. transitive
"Ye see then we are but as snayles, and are chaunged incontinent. And is it meet that we shoulde poke out our hornes agaynst God?"
- 5 To remove (something) by poking (often creating a hole in the process). transitive
"1665, John Phillips (translator), Typhon, or, The Gyants War with the Gods by Paul Scarron (1644), London: Samuel Speed, Canto 5, p. 147, Apollo then does shoot so right With shaft that’s sharp as well as bright, Hits Ephialtes in the eye; And Hercules that then stood by, Pokes out his other: farewel he."
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