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pəʊl/
n.
- the process of voting in an election.
▸a record of the number of votes cast in an election.
▸an opinion poll.
- dialect a person's head or scalp.
- a hornless animal, especially one of a breed of hornless cattle.
v.
- record the opinion or vote of.
▸(of a candidate in an election) receive a specified number of votes.
- cut the horns off (an animal, especially a young cow).
▸
[as adj. polled]
(of a domestic animal) lacking horns.
▸archaic cut off the top of (a tree or plant); pollard.
- Telecommunications & Computing check the status of (a device), especially as part of a repeated cycle.
Derivative
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘head’, later ‘number of people ascertained by counting of heads’): perh. of Low Ger. origin.