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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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