poke out

Verb

 * 1)  To be barely visible past an obstruction or obstructions; to protrude.
 * 2) * 1886,, 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.
 * 1)  To emerge from behind, in, or under something.
 * 2) * 1893,, “A Cape Horn Christmas” in Steve Brown’s Bunyip and Other Stories, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1905, p. 277,
 * 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.
 * 1)  To cause (something) to protrude or emerge.
 * 2)  To remove (something) by poking (often creating a hole in the process).
 * 3) * 1665, (translator), Typhon, or, The Gyants War with the Gods by  (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.
 * 1) * 1842,, “” in Lyrics of Life, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866, p. 35, lines 148-149,
 * “Go,” cried the Mayor, “and get long poles!
 * Poke out the nests and block up the holes!
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1842,, “” in Lyrics of Life, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866, p. 35, lines 148-149,
 * “Go,” cried the Mayor, “and get long poles!
 * Poke out the nests and block up the holes!