Pole

/pəʊl/ · noun

Meaning

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes..

Definitions by Sense

1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
2. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
3. (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
4. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
5. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
6. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
7. (motor racing) A pole position.
8. (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.

Example Sentences

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."

Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.

Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

to pole beans or hops

to pole hay into a barn

Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.

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Word Forms

• poles
• poling
• poled

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