pole

For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

Meronyms: pole-guard, pole-hook, pole-hound, pole-pad, pole-pin, pole-pin-strap, pole-plate, pole-ring, pole-screen, pole-socket, pole-stop, pole-strap

A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.

A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.

(slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

(historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).

(US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.

not touch something with a ten-foot pole

shtagë

long and slender object for construction or support

tukun

long and slender object for propelling a boat

paalu

motor racing: pole position — see also pole position

From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).

cog

poll (one pronunciation or with the doll–dole merger)


pole

Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

to pole beans or hops

(transitive) To furnish with poles for support.

to pole hay into a barn

(transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.

2007, Tony Silvia, Baseball Over the Air:

(transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.

to pole copper

(transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.

en-verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

poles (present singular third-person)
poling (participle present)
poled (participle past)
poled (past)


pole

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).

In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site.

(figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.

(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

The function f(z)#61;#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;z-3#125; has a single pole at z#61;3.

(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.

And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

pól

isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)

From Middle French pole, pôle, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).


pole

(transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.