These are the meanings of the letters PROVOC when you unscramble them.
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Coop (n.)
A barrel or cask for liquor.
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Coop (n.)
A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
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Coop (n.)
An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
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Coop (v. t.)
To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.
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Coop (v. t.)
To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
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Crop (n.)
A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
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Crop (n.)
A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
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Crop (n.)
Anything cut off or gathered.
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Crop (n.)
Grain or other product of the field while standing.
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Crop (n.)
Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
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Crop (n.)
Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
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Crop (n.)
That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
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Crop (n.)
The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
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Crop (n.)
The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
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Crop (n.)
Tin ore prepared for smelting.
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Crop (v. i.)
To yield harvest.
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Crop (v. t.)
Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
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Crop (v. t.)
To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
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Crop (v. t.)
To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
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Poco (adv.)
A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco piu allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow.
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Poor (n.)
A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
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Poor (superl.)
Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
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Poor (superl.)
Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
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Poor (superl.)
Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
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Poor (superl.)
Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
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Poor (superl.)
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
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Poor (superl.)
Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
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Poor (superl.)
Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
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Poor (superl.)
So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
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Poor (superl.)
Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
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Poor (superl.)
Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
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Poor (superl.)
Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
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Poor (superl.)
Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.