v. Obs. exc. dial. Also boak. [Of uncertain origin, but app. akin to POKE v.] intr. and trans. To thrust or push out; to butt, to poke.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 326. Armed with two long hornes boking out before them. Ibid. (1610), Camden’s Brit. (1637), 99. On the reverse a bull boaking with his hornes.
1649. Baxter, Saints’ R., III. xvi. § xi. marg. (1651), As Hens in a coop alwaies boaking to get out.
1674. Ray, N. C. Wds., 6. To Boke at one, to Point at one. Chesh.
1874. E. Waugh, Chimney C., in Lanc. Gloss., I boked my finger at his oppen e’e.
