poll

A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.

A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.

The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.

All soldiers quartered in place are to remove […] and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.

A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)

The polls close at 8 p.m.

The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.

The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.

[…]the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.

And you might perceive the president and general manager, Mr. R. G. Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters..

To take, record the votes of (an electorate).

To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).

To vote at an election.

Mr. Millbank's friends were not disheartened, as it was known that the leading members of Mr. Rigby's Committee had polled; whereas his opponent's were principally reserved.

To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.

He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.

poll for points of faith his trusty vote

To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.

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.

Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

Poll Hereford

Red Poll cows