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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



... hand-maiden did return, carrying a great load of sticks for fire, and then brought to the girl a number of fine trout she had caught almost at their door. She built the fire outside, where two forked sticks had been driven into the ground, and across them a pole lay, from which kettles could be hung. As 'Tana set the coffee pot on the hot coals, the Indian woman spoke to her in that low voice which is characteristic ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... you will be as tired of Bath as if you had pottered about in it as much as I have, and won't care whether it had two great periods—Roman and eighteenth century—or twenty, inextricably entangled with the South Pole and Kamchatka. More tired than I, even, for I have got a certain amount of satisfaction to the eye from the agreeable, classic-looking terraces and crescents, and the pure white stone buildings that glitter on the hillsides overlooking the Avon. That is the sort of background which is becoming ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... in my dream, when all these things were finished, Mr. Great-heart took the head of Giant Despair, and set it upon a pole by the highway side, right over against the pillar that Christian erected for a caution to pilgrims that came after, to take heed of ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... noticed a brass cannon, perched on a rock at the entrance to the harbor. This had been put there by the last consul, but it had not been fired for many years. Albert immediately ordered the two Bradleys to get it in order, and to rig up a flag-pole beside it, for one of his American flags, which they were to salute every night when ...
— Cinderella - And Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... At the furlong pole beyond, Tay Ho's hooded head for the first time showed in front—only to be instantly eclipsed by the white star of Aldegonde. Aramis began to hang—the angry roar of his backers told he was out of it. Simultaneously, the jockeys sat down to ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various


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