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Pole   /poʊl/   Listen
noun
Pole  n.  A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.


Pole  n.  
1.
A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically:
(a)
A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back.
(b)
A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported.
(c)
A Maypole. See Maypole.
(d)
A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers.
(e)
A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
2.
A measuring stick; also, a measure of length, or a square measure; a rod; a perch.
Pole bean (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean.
Pole flounder (Zool.), a large deep-water flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; called also craig flounder, and pole fluke.
Pole lathe, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle, and the other to an elastic pole above.
Pole mast (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or from a single tree.
Pole of a lens (Opt.), the point where the principal axis meets the surface.
Pole plate (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters. It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.


Pole  n.  
1.
Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
2.
(Spherics) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
3.
(Physics) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
4.
The firmament; the sky. (Poetic) "Shoots against the dusky pole."
5.
(Geom.) See Polarity, and Polar, n.
Magnetic pole. See under Magnetic.
Poles of the earth, or Terrestrial poles (Geog.), the two opposite points on the earth's surface through which its axis passes.
Poles of the heavens, or Celestial poles, the two opposite points in the celestial sphere which coincide with the earth's axis produced, and about which the heavens appear to revolve.


verb
Pole  v. t.  (past & past part. poled; pres. part. poling)  
1.
To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
2.
To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
3.
To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
4.
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.





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"Pole" Quotes from Famous Books



... September to the middle of October, are excellent, and eagerly sought after. The usual method of shooting them in this quarter of the country is as follows: The sportsman furnishes himself with a light batteau, and a stout, experienced boatman, with a pole of twelve or fifteen feet long, thickened at the lower end to prevent it from sinking too deep into the mud. About two hours or so before high-water they enter the reeds, and each takes his post, the sportsman standing in the bow ready for action, the boatman ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 • Various
... said, "and we'll push it across where there aren't any stones sticking up. You can pole it across with your oar, and I'll keep hold of ...
— The Scotch Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... I was returning home late at night. As I turned from the Zubova into Khamovnitchesky Lane, I saw some black spots on the snow of the Dyevitchy Pole (field). Something was moving about in one place. I should not have paid any attention to this, if the policeman who was standing at the end of the street had not shouted in the direction of ...
— What To Do? - thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow • Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
... opposed to Chinese cheap labor; so he made it his business to rob Chinamen. But the Chinamen caught him, tied his hands and feet, slung him on a pole like so much pork and started him for Moore's Flat, taking pains to bump him against every stump and boulder ...
— Forty-one Thieves - A Tale of California • Angelo Hall
... were no two poles of the same height or shape; some were five or six feet long, others ten or fifteen;—some were straight, some crooked; some of most irregular knobby shapes. As to the wire, when it did happen to be supported on the pole it was not fastened to an insulator, as one would expect, but merely rested on a nail, or in an indentation in the wood. For hundreds of yards at a time the wire lay on the ground, and the poles rested by its side or across ...
— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor


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