dial. [f. FIRE sb. + POTE v. dial. to push.] A poker, an iron bar for stirring the fire.
1651. Depos. Cast. York. (Surtees), 51. Mending the fire with the fire-poite.
1855. Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Fire-poat, the poker. ‘Give him the fire poat,’ a push with the poker, equivalent to ‘knock him down.’
1865. Waugh, Goblin’s Grave, 15. Iv aw’d had a red-whot fire-pote or two, aw could like to ha’ made freemasons o’ some o’ th’ chaps at had th’ orderin’ on it.
