blow poke

English

Noun

blow poke (plural blow pokes)

1. A hollow poker through which air can be blown to fuel a fire.
   • 2004 October 21, 00:56 from the start, in Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, director, The Staircase S1 E6: The Prosecution’s Revenge (Documentary TV Series), spoken by Candace Zamperini (Candace Zamperini):

     Jim Hardin (as himself): Let me show you what is marked as State’s Exhibit 72, and ask whether you can identify that for me, please. Candace Zamperini: This is my blow poke (she blows) - Blow through it.

   • 2004, Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher, A Vote for Murder: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery: a Novel, page 154:

     When Jardine was again within our circle, Moody asked, “What’s this about some blow poke?”It isn’t here,” Jardine muttered. “What’s a blow poke?” Moody asked us. “A fireplace tool,” George answered.

   • 2005, H Thomas Milhorn, MD., Ph.D., Crime: Computer Viruses to Twin Towers, page 249:

     Another chief concern was he discovery of the so-called “missing” murder weapon, the blow poke fireplace tool the prosecutors claimed Peterson used to bludgeon his wife to death. Two days before ending his case, defense lawyer, David Rudolf, brought out the blow poke, which prosecutors contended had gone mysteriously missing after Kathleen Peterson’s death.

   • 2021, Sarah Moore, Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media, page 129:

     In The Staircase there is a suggestion that continually retracing our steps doesn’t in itself yield much, and certainly doesn’t necessarily awaken new ways of seeing. The discovery of the blow-poke, the alleged murder weapon, is a case in point. A gift from Kathleen’s sister, he suspiciously missing blow-poke is an essential part of the prosecution’s case.