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polling |
3 definitions found 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]: Polling \Poll"ing\, n. [See {Poll} the head.] 1. The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges. 2. Plunder, or extortion. [Obs.] --E. Hall. 3. The act of voting, or of registering a vote. {Polling booth}, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done a polling place From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: polling {poll}
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