• | A parrot; -- familiarly so called. |
• | One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. |
• | The head; the back part of the head. |
• | A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. |
• | Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. |
• | The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. |
• | The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. |
• | The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. |
• | The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a). |
• | 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. |
• | 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. |
• | To extort from; to plunder; to strip. |
• | To impose a tax upon. |
• | To pay as one's personal tax. |
• | To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. |
• | 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. |
• | To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll. |
• | To vote at an election. |
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