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Pole
POLE, n. [L. palus. See Pale.]
1. A long slender piece of wood, or the stem of a small tree deprived of its branches. Thus seamen use poles for setting or driving boats in shallow water; the stems of small trees are used for hoops and called hoop-poles; the stems of small, but tall straight trees, are used as poles for supporting the scaffolding in building.
2. A rod; a perch; a measure of length of five yards and a half.
[In New England, rod is generally used.]
3. An instrument for measuring.
Bare poles. A ship is under bare poles, when her sails are all furled.
POLE, n. [L. polus; Gr. to turn.]
1. In astronomy, one of the extremities of the axis on which the sphere revolves. These two points are called the poles of the world.
2. In spherics, a point equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle of the sphere; or it is a point 90 deg. distant from the plane of a circle, and in a line passing perpendicularly through the center, called the axis. Thus the zenith and nadir are the poles of the horizon.
3. In geography, the extremity of the earth's axis, or one of the points on the surface of our globe through which the axis passes.
4. The star which is vertical to the pole of the earth; the pole-star.
Poles of the ecliptic, are two points on the surface of the sphere, 23 deg. 30' distant from the poles of the world.
Magnetic poles, two points in a lodestone, corresponding to the poles of the world; the one pointing to the north, the other to the south.
POLE, n. [from Poland.] A native of Poland.
POLE, v.t. To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans.
1. To bear or convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
2. To impel by poles, as a boat; to push forward by the use of poles.
pole appears in definitions for these words:
Aker Ammonium Angle-rod Antarctic Archon Arctation Ascending Astrolabe Balize Bamboo Bare Beacon Beam Bearing-cloth Bind Boat-hook Boom Cane Chair Chart Circle Circumpolar Climate Colure Conepate Conepatl Cowl Cowl-staff Cudgel Cynosure Depress Depression Dipping-needle Draw-well Earth Electro-positive Equator Erect Espalier Fitchet Foumart Furlong Gaelic Halberd Helispheric Hight Hooting Hoppole Horizon Horselitter Impale Impolarly Index Jacobs-ladder Line Lodestar Lug Mage Magnet May-pole Measure Meridian Meter Mile Neap Needle Nocturnal North Nut-hatch Oblate Paddle Pale Pawl Peg Perch Point Poke-weed Polar Polarity Polarization Polary Pole Pole-ax Pole-star Polemic Poley Poling Polonaise Poy Prime Quoll Reach Rod Rood Roost Sarmatian Scud Secondary Sedan Shaft Sheephook Shove Sphere Spheroid Sprit Stack Staff Stang Star Stile Stun Swape Tall Tent Terrel Thump Trade Turn Ungenial Universal Ursa Vertex Waft Windy Zone
Aker Ammonium Angle-rod Antarctic Archon Arctation Ascending Astrolabe Balize Bamboo Bare Beacon Beam Bearing-cloth Bind Boat-hook Boom Cane Chair Chart Circle Circumpolar Climate Colure Conepate Conepatl Cowl Cowl-staff Cudgel Cynosure Depress Depression Dipping-needle Draw-well Earth Electro-positive Equator Erect Espalier Fitchet Foumart Furlong Gaelic Halberd Helispheric Hight Hooting Hoppole Horizon Horselitter Impale Impolarly Index Jacobs-ladder Line Lodestar Lug Mage Magnet May-pole Measure Meridian Meter Mile Neap Needle Nocturnal North Nut-hatch Oblate Paddle Pale Pawl Peg Perch Point Poke-weed Polar Polarity Polarization Polary Pole Pole-ax Pole-star Polemic Poley Poling Polonaise Poy Prime Quoll Reach Rod Rood Roost Sarmatian Scud Secondary Sedan Shaft Sheephook Shove Sphere Spheroid Sprit Stack Staff Stang Star Stile Stun Swape Tall Tent Terrel Thump Trade Turn Ungenial Universal Ursa Vertex Waft Windy Zone
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