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Poll   /poʊl/   Listen
noun
Poll  n.  A parrot; familiarly so called.


Poll  n.  One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. (Cambridge Univ., Eng.)


Poll  n.  
1.
The head; the back part of the head. "All flaxen was his poll."
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." "The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll."
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."
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.
(Zool.) 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.


verb
Poll  v. t.  (past & past part. polled; pres. part. 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." "His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs."
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."
3.
To extort from; to plunder; to strip. (Obs.) "Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise."
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."
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."
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."
8.
(Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed.
To poll a jury, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered.


Poll  v. i.  To vote at an election.





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... be traduced by court sycophants and an those who live on the spoil of a public is not to be wondered at. He was, however, the means of checking the rage and injustice of taxation in his time, and the nation owed much to his valour. The history is concisely this:—In the time of Richard Ii. a poll tax was levied of one shilling per head upon every person in the nation of whatever estate or condition, on poor as well as rich, above the age of fifteen years. If any favour was shown in the law it was to the rich rather ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine
... 1377 a new Parliament, elected under Lancaster's influence, reversed all the proceedings of the Good Parliament, and showed how little sympathy the baronial party had with the people by imposing a poll tax of 4d. a head on all except beggars, thus making the payment of a labourer and a duke equal. The bishops, unable to strike at Lancaster, struck at Wycliffe, as his creature. Wycliffe was summoned to appear before an ecclesiastical court at St. Paul's, presided ...
— A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) - From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII • Samuel Rawson Gardiner
... Illinois. He had lost one leg, and went hobbling about the camp on crutches, chattering continually in a loud, discordant voice, saying all manner of hateful and annoying things, wherever he saw an opportunity. This and his beak-like nose gained for him the name of "Poll Parrot." His misfortune caused him to be tolerated where another man would have been suppressed. By-and-by he gave still greater cause for offense by his obsequious attempts to curry favor with Captain Wirz, ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy
... to all appearance, and the bare lichen as devoid of life to our eyes. Yet there must have been something there for all these eager bills—eggs or pupae. A jackdaw, with iron-grey patch on the back of his broad poll, dropped in my garden one morning, to the great alarm of the small birds, and made off with some large dark object in his beak—some beetle or shell probably, I could not distinguish which, and should most likely have passed ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... Pinkster Hill past the squat Dutch church; the Tontine Coffee House sprang from dust, and through its doors walked Hamilton and Burr, Jerome Bonaparte, and a comic-pathetic emigre marquis, who in poverty awaited the greater Bonaparte's downfall, cherishing his order of Saint Louis and powdering his poll with Indian meal; the Livingstons and Clintons divided the land between them; Van Buren and the Regency ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther


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