Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
A type of basic fishing rod.
A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).
Pole position.
A gun.
Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
The firmament; the sky.
Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
To furnish with poles for support.
To convey on poles.
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
A formal election.
A polling place
The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
A pet parrot.
One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
To vote at an election.
To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
To cut the hair of (a creature).
To remove the horns of (an animal).
To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
To be judged in a poll.
To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
To impose a tax upon.
To pay as one's personal tax.
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
Bred without horns, and thus hornless.