pole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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cricket
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fishing
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hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
motor-racing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
racing
sports
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: poles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
There she was, walking around with an IV pole, and we were only told that "Mommy isn't feeling so well, so she has to be connected to a special soda."
gloss: A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of basic fishing rod.
pos: noun
gloss: A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
pos: noun
gloss: A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A pole position.
pos: noun
gloss: A rifle.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: A wicket, especially in the context of the number of wickets taken by a particular bowler.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.
gloss: To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
pos: verb
examples: Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
gloss: To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
pos: verb
examples: He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
gloss: To furnish with poles for support.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pole beans or hops
gloss: To convey on poles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pole hay into a barn
gloss: To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To strike (the ball) very hard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.
gloss: To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pole copper
Derived words: alepole
barber pole
barge pole
bargepole
beanpole
boom pole
bush pole
carrying pole
cartpole
catchpole
clodpole
clothespole
coupling pole
cross-pole
dance pole
depress the pole
double pole
double-pole technique
eighth pole
family pole
fencepole
Festivus pole
firepole
fishing pole
fishpole
flagpole
footpole
foul pole
fuckpole
gee pole
gin pole
grabpole
greasy pole
habitat pole
headpole
hiking pole
Hop Pole
hop pole
hydro pole
ice pole
icy pole
J-pole antenna
lightpole
lodge pole
lodgepole
maypole
meatpole
memorial pole
milepole
monkey pole
mortuary pole
negative pole
nerd pole
not touch something with a ten-foot pole
over-the-pole
perch pole
pike pole
pitchpole
polearm
poleaxe
pole barn
poleboat
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
poleless
polelike
poleman
polepiece
pole plate
pole position
poler
polescreen
pole-sitter
polesitter
polesman
pole-smoker
polespear
polestar
polester
poletimber
pole up one's ass
pole vault
pole vaulter
pole weapon
power pole
punting pole
punt pole
quant pole
quarter pole
range pole
ranging pole
rhythm pole
ridgepole
ridicule pole
roundpole
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
sweet 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
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