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pole

1  [pohl] noun, verb, poled, pol⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole.
2. Northeastern U.S. a long, tapering piece of wood or other material that extends from the front axle of a vehicle between the animals drawing it.
3. Nautical.
a. a light spar.
b. that part of a mast between the uppermost standing rigging and the truck.
4. the lane of a racetrack nearest to the infield; the inside lane. Compare post 1 (def. 5).
5. a unit of length equal to 16 1/2 feet (5 m); a rod.
6. a square rod, 30 1/4 square yards (25.3 sq. m).
–verb (used with object)
7. to furnish with poles.
8. to push, strike, or propel with a pole: to pole a raft.
9. Baseball. to make (an extra-base hit) by batting the ball hard and far: He poled a triple to deep right-center.
10. Metallurgy. to stir (molten metal, as copper, tin, or zinc) with poles of green wood so as to produce carbon, which reacts with the oxygen present to effect deoxidation.
–verb (used without object)
11. to propel a boat, raft, etc., with a pole: to pole down the river.
—Idiom
12. under bare poles,
a. Nautical. (of a sailing ship) with no sails set, as during a violent storm.
b. stripped; naked; destitute: The thugs robbed him and left him under bare poles.
Origin:
bef. 1050; ME; OE pāl < L pālus stake. See pale 2

Related forms:
poleless, adjective
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pole 2   (pōl)   
n.  

  1. A long, relatively slender, generally rounded piece of wood or other material.

  2. The long tapering wooden shaft extending up from the front axle of a vehicle to the collars of the animals drawing it; a tongue.

    1. See rod.

    2. A unit of area equal to a square rod.

  4. Sports The inside position on the starting line of a racetrack: qualified in the time trials to start on the pole.

v.   poled, pol·ing, poles

v.   tr.

    1. To propel with a pole: boatmen poling barges up a placid river.

    2. To propel (oneself) or make (one's way) by the use of ski poles: "We ski through the glades on corn snow, then pole our way over a long one-hour runout to a road" (Frederick Selby).

  2. To support (plants) with a pole.

  3. To strike, poke, or stir with a pole.

v.   intr.

  1. To propel a boat or raft with a pole.

  2. To use ski poles to maintain or gain speed.


[Middle English, from Old English pāl, from Latin pālus, stake; see pag- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

pole  (1)
"stake," O.E. pal "stake," from P.Gmc. *pal-, from L. palus "stake" (see pale(n.)). Racing sense of "inside fence surrounding a course" is from 1851. Pole-vault is attested from 1893. To not touch (something) with a ten-foot pole is from 1903, originally 40-foot pole.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pole
Pronunciation: 'pOl
Function: noun
1 a : either of the two terminals of an electric cell, battery, generator, or motor b : one of two or more regions in a magnetized body at which the magnetic flux density is concentrated
2 : either of two morphologically or physiologically differentiatedareas at opposite ends of an axis in an organism, organ, or cell —see ANIMAL POLE, VEGETAL POLE
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

pole (pōl)
n.

  1. Either of the two points at the extremities of the axis of an organ or body.

  2. Either extremity of an axis through a sphere.

  3. Either of two oppositely charged terminals, as in an electric cell.

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