tall coarse perennial American herb having small white
flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous Synonym(s):poke, pigeon berry, garget, scoke, Phytolacca americana
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scoke \Scoke\, n. (Bot.)
Poke ({Phytolacca decandra}).