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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.