noun
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
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."
A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
A type of basic fishing rod.
A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
verb
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
To furnish with poles for support.
to pole beans or hops
To convey on poles.
to pole hay into a barn
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
noun
Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site.
Genuine music is the offspring of profound emotion: of exaltation, pain, or joy. Music produced outside of a situation between these poles of the human heart is of banal character, bloodless, watery.
A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.