Polehead

Quick meaning: Polehead is a noun meaning The portion of a mast above the crossbar that holds the sail, which sometimes support a flag or topsail.

Meaning

The portion of a mast above the crossbar that holds the sail, which sometimes support a flag or topsail.

More Meanings

1. The top of a flagpole.
2. (more generally) The top of any pole.
3. The front portion of the pole that attaches a coach or wagon to the team of horses that pulls it.
4. A housing for wires that is attached to the top of a telephone pole or similar pole carrying power lines.
5. An emblem, usually made of metal, that tops a pole which is carried by the steward or secretary of a rural British club or friendly society.
6. (dialect) A tadpole.

Example Sentences

Thus the mizen-mast is devoid of a mizen-topgallant, despite a topmast polehead long enough to carry one.

From a polehead flew a homemade flag cut from red, white and blue cloth. This ragtag banner sported the national colors of Hayes' homeland, USA.

The sketch is from a photograph, and shows one of these old type of vessels before a light wind, with a small square topsail set upon the polehead of her single lofty spar.

They are not seen again until the camping-ground for the night is reached, when the four tents will be found pitched ready for us, with English and American flags flying at their poleheads.

Word Forms

• poleheads
• pole-head
• pole head

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include topmast, pendant, head, capshore, heading, foretopsail.

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