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Poll tax   /poʊl tæks/   Listen
noun
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.






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"Poll tax" Quotes from Famous Books



... the advantages ... allow me to propose a general and equitable tax collected from all the rateable members of a state, for the support of the public teachers of religion, of all denominations, within the state.... Let a moderate poll tax be added to a tax of a specified sum on the pound, and levied on all the subjects of a state and collected with the public tax, and paid out to the public teachers of religion of the several denominations in proportion to the number of polls or families, belonging to each respectively; or according ...
— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.

... a tax on the person and not on property. A male citizen twenty-one and over must pay a poll tax of $1.00 even if he has no property. He must pay this tax before he can vote. In Kentucky the poll ...
— Citizenship - A Manual for Voters • Emma Guy Cromwell



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