6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rod \Rod\, n. [The same word as rood. See {Rood}.]
1. A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence any slender
bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
Specifically:
a An instrument of punishment or correction;
figuratively, chastisement.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son. --Prov.
xiii. 24.
b A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence
figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
``The rod, and bird of peace.'' --Shak.
c A support for a fishing line a fish pole. --Gay.
d (Mach. & Structure) A member used in tension, as for
sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and
compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion,
etc.; a connecting bar.
e An instrument for measuring.
2. A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; --
called also {perch}, and {pole}.
{Black rod}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Rods and cones} (Anat.), the elongated cells or elements of
the sensory layer of the retina, some of which are
cylindrical, others somewhat conical.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pole \Pole\, n. [Cf. G. Pole a Pole, Polen Poland.]
A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pole \Pole\, n. [As. p[=a]l, L. palus, akin to pangere to make
fast Cf {Pale} a stake, {Pact}.]
1. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of
timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been
removed; as specifically:
a A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front
axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which
the carriage is guided and held back
b A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported.
c A Maypole. See {Maypole}.
d A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a
sign by barbers and hairdressers.
e A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines,
are trained.
2. A measuring stick; also a measure of length equal to 5?
yards, or a square measure equal to 30? square yards; a
rod; a perch. --Bacon.
{Pole bean} (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily
trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean.
{Pole flounder} (Zo["o]l.), a large deep-water flounder
({Glyptocephalus cynoglossus}), native of the northern
coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food
fish; -- called also {craig flounder}, and {pole fluke}.
{Pole lathe}, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a
lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord
passing around it one end being fastened to the treadle,
and the other to an elastic pole above.
{Pole mast} (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or
from a single tree.
{Pole of a lens} (Opt.), the point where the principal axis
meets the surface.
{Pole plate} (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the
tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters.
It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pole \Pole\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Poling}.]
1. To furnish with poles for support; as to pole beans or
hops.
2. To convey on poles; as to pole hay into a barn.
3. To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
4. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pole \Pole\, n. [L. polus, Gr ? a pivot or hinge on which
anything turns, an axis, a pole; akin to ? to move: cf F.
p[^o]le.]
1. Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one
of the extremities of the earth's axis; as the north
pole.
2. (Spherics) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally
distant from every part of the circumference of a great
circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere
perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the
surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle;
as the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the
pole of a given meridian.
3. (Physics) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or
directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point
of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points,
or which has polarity; as the poles of a magnet; the
north pole of a needle.
4. The firmament; the sky. [Poetic]
Shoots against the dusky pole. --Milton.
5. (Geom.) See {Polarity}, and {Polar}, n.
{Magnetic pole}. See under {Magnetic}.
{Poles of the earth}, or {Terrestrial poles} (Geog.), the two
opposite points on the earth's surface through which its
axis passes.
{Poles of the heavens}, or {Celestial poles}, the two
opposite points in the celestial sphere which coincide
with the earth's axis produced, and about which the
heavens appear to revolve.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pole
n 1: a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
2: a native or inhabitant of Poland [syn: {Pole}]
3: one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions; "they
are at opposite poles" or "they are poles apart"
4: (British) a linear measure of 16.5 feet [syn: {perch}, {rod}]
5: a square rod of land [syn: {perch}, {rod}]
6: one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and
the celestial sphere [syn: {celestial pole}]
7: one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of
rotation intersects the Earth's surface
8: a point on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which
electric current enters or leaves [syn: {terminal}]
9: a long fiberglass implement used for pole vaulting
10: one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to
be concentrated [syn: {magnetic pole}]
v 1: propel with a pole; of barges on rivers, for example [syn: {punt}]
2: support on poles, of climbing plants, such as beans
3: deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
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