pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊl/
ipa: [pʰɒʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /pɒl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: [pʰɒɫ]
ipa: /poʊl/
ipa: [pʰoʊɫ]
ipa: /pəʉl/
ipa: [pʰəʉɫ]
ipa: [pʰɐʉɫ]
ipa: /pɐʉl/
ipa: [pʰɐʉɫ]
ipa: /pol/
ipa: [pʰoɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: Pole
homophone: poll (one pronunciation or with the doll–dole merger)
Forms: form: poles
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
synonyms: carriage pole
beam
shaft
drawbar
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
glosses: A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A type of basic fishing rod.
glosses: A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
qualifier: spotting
glosses: A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
glosses: A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A pole position.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A rifle.
glosses: A penis.
Synonyms: sense: unit of length
word: rod
Derived terms: alepole
barber pole
barge pole
bargepole
beanpole
boom pole
bush pole
carrying pole
clothespole
coupling pole
cross-pole
dance pole
depress the pole
double pole
double-pole technique
eighth pole
family pole
Festivus pole
firepole
fishing pole
flagpole
foul pole
gee pole
gin pole
greasy pole
habitat pole
hiking pole
hop pole
Hop Pole
hydro pole
ice pole
icy pole
J-pole antenna
lightpole
lodge pole
maypole
memorial pole
monkey pole
mortuary pole
negative pole
nerd pole
not touch something with a ten-foot pole
over-the-pole
perch pole
pike pole
polearm
poleaxe
pole barn
pole building
pole-chain
pole charge
pole cleaver
pole corn
pole-crab
pole dance
pole dancer
pole dancing
pole fitness
pole hammer
polehead
pole hook
pole jam
pole-jocking
pole lathe
pole plate
pole position
polescreen
polesitter
pole-sitter
pole-smoker
polespear
polestar
pole up one's ass
pole vault
pole vaulter
pole weapon
power pole
punting pole
quant pole
quarter pole
range pole
ranging pole
rhythm pole
ridgepole
ridicule pole
setting pole
shame pole
shoulder pole
ski pole
smoke pole
smoke someone's pole
snow pole
socket pole
spinnaker pole
springpole
Stobie pole
stripper pole
tail-pole
taxi pole
telegraph pole
telephone pole
tentpole
the longest pole knocks the persimmon
totem pole
trekking pole
trolley pole
up the pole
utility pole
walking pole
welcome pole
whisker pole