'Poll' definitions:

Definition of 'poll'

(from WordNet)
noun
An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people [syn: poll, opinion poll, public opinion poll, canvass]
noun
The top of the head [syn: pate, poll, crown]
noun
The part of the head between the ears
noun
A tame parrot [syn: poll, poll parrot]
noun
The counting of votes (as in an election)
verb
Get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions [syn: poll, canvass, canvas]
verb
Vote in an election at a polling station
verb
Get the votes of
verb
Convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" [syn: poll, pollard]

Definition of 'Poll'

From: GCIDE
  • Poll \Poll\, n. [From Polly, The proper name.] A parrot; -- familiarly so called. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Poll'

From: GCIDE
  • Poll \Poll\, n. [Gr. ? the many, the rabble.] One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [Cambridge Univ., Eng.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Poll'

From: GCIDE
  • Poll \Poll\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. [1913 Webster]
  • We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. [1913 Webster]
  • All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Zool.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a) . [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Poll'

From: GCIDE
  • Poll \Poll\, v. i. To vote at an election. --Beaconsfield. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Poll'

From: GCIDE
  • Poll \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. [1913 Webster]
  • When he [Absalom] pollled his head. --2 Sam. xiv. 26. [1913 Webster]
  • His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To impose a tax upon. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To pay as one's personal tax. [1913 Webster]
  • The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. [1913 Webster]
  • Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. --Tickell. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See {Dee? poll}. --Burrill. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'poll'

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Words containing 'Poll'