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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Poll \Poll\, n. [From Polly, The proper name.] A parrot; -- familiarly so called From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. When he [Absalom] pollled his head. --2 Sam. xiv. 26. His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. --Sir T. North. 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. 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. 3. To extort from to plunder; to strip. [Obs.] Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. --Spenser. 4. To impose a tax upon [Obs.] 5. To pay as one's personal tax. The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. --Dryden. 6. To enter as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms. --Milton. 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. And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. --Tickell. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands. --Shak. The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. --Shak. 3. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. 4. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as the close of the poll. All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. --Blackstone. 5. pl The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as to go to the polls. 6. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax 7. (Zo["o]l.) The European chub. See {Pollard}, 3 a . {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Poll \Poll\, v. i. To vote at an election. --Beaconsfield. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: poll n 1: an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people [syn: {public opinion poll}, {canvass}] 2: the top of the head [syn: {pate}, {crown}] 3: the part of the head between the ears 4: a tame parrot [syn: {poll parrot}] 5: the counting of votes (as in an election) v 1: get the opinions of people, for example [syn: {canvass}, {canvas}] 2: vote in an election at a polling station 3: get the votes of 4: convert into a pollard, as of trees [syn: {pollard}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: poll v.,n. 1. [techspeak] The action of checking the status of an input line sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been registered. 2. To repeatedly call or check with someone: "I keep polling him but he's not answering his phone; he must be swapped out." 3. To ask "Lunch? I poll for a takeout order daily." From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: poll To check the status of an input line sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been registered. Contrast {interrupt}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-31)
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