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POLL
poll
(noun) the counting of votes (as in an election)
poll, poll parrot
(noun) a tame parrot
poll
(noun) the part of the head between the ears
pate, poll, crown
(noun) the top of the head
poll, opinion poll, public opinion poll, canvass
(noun) an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
poll, pollard
(verb) convert into a pollard; “pollard trees”
poll, canvass
(verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
poll
(verb) get the votes of
poll
(verb) vote in an election at a polling station
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
poll (plural polls)
A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
Synonyms: election, survey
A formal election.
A polling place (usually, as plural, polling places)
(now, rare, outside, veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
Synonym: scalp
(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
Verb
poll (third-person singular simple present polls, present participle polling, simple past and past participle polled)
(transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
(transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
(intransitive) To vote at an election.
To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
(transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
(transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
(transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
(intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
(obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
To impose a tax upon.
To pay as one's personal tax.
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
(legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
Adjective
poll
(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
Etymology 2
Noun
poll (plural polls)
A pet parrot.
Etymology 3
Noun
poll (plural polls)
(UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Poll
A diminutive of the female given name Mary.
A common pet name for a parrot.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Poll
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Poll, n. Etym: [From Polly, The proper name.]
Definition: A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
Poll, n. Etym: [Gr.
Definition: One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [Cambridge Univ., Eng.]
Poll, n. Etym: [Akin to LG. polle the head, the crest of a bird, the top of a tree, OD. pol, polle, Dan. puld the crown of a hat.]
1. The head; the back part of the head. "All flaxen was his poll." Shak.
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. Shak. The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. Shak.
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. Blackstone.
5. pl.
Definition: 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. (Zoöl.)
Definition: 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.
Poll, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polled; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. 2 Sam. xiv. 26. His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. Sir T. North.
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. Chapman.
3. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.] Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. Spenser.
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. Dryden.
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. Milton.
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. Tickell.
8. (Law)
Definition: To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee. Burrill. 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.
Definition: To vote at an election. Beaconsfield.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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