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Poll   /poʊl/   Listen
noun
Poll  n.  A parrot; familiarly so called.


Poll  n.  One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. (Cambridge Univ., Eng.)


Poll  n.  
1.
The head; the back part of the head. "All flaxen was his poll."
2.
A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. "We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands." "The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll."
3.
Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
4.
The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. "All soldiers quartered in place are to remove... and not to return till one day after the poll is ended."
5.
pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
6.
The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
7.
(Zool.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
Poll book, a register of persons entitled to vote at an election.
Poll evil (Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck.
Poll pick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar.
Poll tax, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.


verb
Poll  v. t.  (past & past part. polled; pres. part. polling)  
1.
To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree. "When he (Absalom) pollled his head." "His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs."
2.
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass. "Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it."
3.
To extort from; to plunder; to strip. (Obs.) "Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise."
4.
To impose a tax upon. (Obs.)
5.
To pay as one's personal tax. "The man that polled but twelve pence for his head."
6.
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. "Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms."
7.
To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent. "And poll for points of faith his trusty vote."
8.
(Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed.
To poll a jury, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered.


Poll  v. i.  To vote at an election.





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"Poll" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bidding of such a craven, who now on seeing him would fain run away. So the Jinn, without an instant's delay, raised his quarter staff of steel, and, swinging it twice in air, before Prince Ahmad could reach the throne or on any wise interfere, struck the Sultan so fiercely upon the poll that his skull was smashed and his brains were scattered over the floor. And when Shabbar had made an end of this offender, he savagely turned upon the Grand Wazir who stood on the Sultan's right and incontinently would have slain him also, but ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... commander. Before proceeding to the election, it was agreed that the majority, together with the new commander, should keep the ship, and the minority should content themselves with the canoes and other small craft. On the poll, Captain Sharpe was restored, and Mr Dampier, who had voted against him, prepared, together with his associates, to return over land to the Gulf ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr
... good Tony was a welcome enough son-in-law, though Cecily would always be the better man. The young Oxfordshire squire was true to his own royalties, and a mortal could be no more. He liked the flaxen poll of him, which contrasted well with Cecily's dark beauty—and his jolly laugh and the noble carriage of his head. Yet what wisdom did that head contain which could ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan
... Day; for that day he supped with his disciples openly.... It is also in English called Sherethursday; for in old fathers' days the people would that day sheer their heads and clip their beards, and poll their heads, and so make them honest against Easter-day." —Rock, ib., p. 235. [[Corrected; 15a. The Sidenote belongs to the Latin ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... I am going to tell you is about a parrot my aunt once had—named, of course, Polly. She had been taught many funny and amusing speeches, among which she used to say to a canary that hung in the same room, "Pretty Poll, shabby canary;" and when the canary sang she would cry out, "Oh, what a noise! what a noise!" My aunt having been very ill, had not seen Polly for a long time, not being able to bear her noisy talking; ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various


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