POKE (2)

poke (2). Poke, v.t. to feel in the dark, search out, stir up

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Poke, n. [[AS. poca, poha, pohha; akin to Icel. poki, OD. poke, and perh. to E. pock; cf. also Gael. poca, and OF. poque. Cf. Pock, Pocket, Pouch.]] 1. 1. A bag; a sack; a pocket. “He drew a dial from his poke.” Shak.
They wallowed as pigs in a poke. Chaucer. 2. 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.