Crossword-Solution: POLL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Poll | n. | A parrot; -- familiarly so called. |
| Poll | n. | One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. |
| Poll | n. | The head; the back part of the head. |
| Poll | n. | A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. |
| Poll | n. | Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. |
| Poll | n. | The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. |
| Poll | n. | The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. |
| Poll | n. | The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. |
| Poll | n. | The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a). |
| Poll | v. t. | 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. |
| Poll | v. t. | 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. |
| Poll | v. t. | To extort from; to plunder; to strip. |
| Poll | v. t. | To impose a tax upon. |
| Poll | v. t. | To pay as one's personal tax. |
| Poll | v. t. | To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. |
| Poll | v. t. | 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. |
| Poll | v. t. | To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll. |
| Poll | v. i. | To vote at an election. |
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Sentences with POLL (5)
Taking up this side of the problem we shall discover two entirely distinct difficulties:-- First, we shall find many Negroes, and indeed hundreds of thousands of white men as well, who might vote, but who, through ignorance, or inability or unwillingness to pay the poll-taxes, or from mere lack of interest, disfranchise themselves.
When she came downstairs, a great fire glowed in the grate, the room was hot, the breakfast was roughly laid, and seated in his armchair, against the chimney-piece, sat Morel, rather timid; and standing between his legs, the child—cropped like a sheep, with such an odd round poll—looking wondering at her; and on a newspaper spread out upon the hearthrug, a myriad of crescent-shaped curls, like the petals of a marigold scattered in the reddening firelight.
Margheritone of Arezzo, With the grave-clothes garb and swaddling barret (Why purse up mouth and beak in a pet so, You bald old saturnine poll-clawed parrot?) Not a poor glimmering Crucifixion, Where in the foreground kneels the donor? If such remain, as is my conviction, The hoarding it does you but little honor.
Rosa was typical British, from her flaxen poll to the stout calves she displayed so liberally, and in character she was of the blameless order of those who have not yet been found out.
For I must tell you that I knew somehow, but I know not how, that the men of Essex were gathering to rise against the poll-groat bailiffs and the lords that would turn them all into villeins again, as their grandfathers had been.
Quotes with POLL (3)
According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.
Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher — ""Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I spent the entire Eighties wishing I was pissing on her rotting corpse.
... Subordination of the state to Christian values is precisely what the early Puritans, even those in the tradition of the Mayflower Pilgrims, aimed to do. The First Amendment notwithstanding, large numbers of the American public (especially churchgoing Protestant Christians) have embodied this Puritan way of thinking, viewing America as a "Christan nation." Relatively recent poll data bear out the enduring character of these Puritan convictions. According to a Pew Forum pol…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 273 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).