Category:Pole

Pole, n. Etym: [cf. G. Pole a pole, polen poland.]

Defn: a native or inhabitant of poland; a polander.

Pole Pole, n. Etym: [as. pal, l. palus, akin to pangere to make fast. Cf. Pale a stake, pact.]

1. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; The stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, Specifically: (a) a carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the Front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the Carriage is guided and held back. (b) a flag pole, a pole on which a Flag is supported. (c) a maypole. See maypole. (d) a barber's pole, a Pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) a pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are Trained.

2. A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5 bacon. Pole bean (bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily trained on Poles, as the scarlet runner or the lima bean. -- pole flounder (zoöl.), a large deep-water flounder (glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of europe And america, and much esteemed as a food fish; -- called also craig Flounder, and pole fluke. -- pole lathe, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, In which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one End being fastened to the treadle, and the other to an elastic pole Above. -- pole mast (naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or from a Single tree. -- pole of a lens (opt.), the point where the principal axis meets The surface. -- pole plate (arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams Of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters. It differs from the Plate in not resting on the wall.

Pole Pole, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poled; p. pr. & vb. n. Poling.]

1. To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.

2. To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.

3. To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.

4. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Pole Pole, n. Etym: [l. polus, gr. pôle.]

1. Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the Extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.

2. (spherics)

Defn: a point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every Part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a Diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle Meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; As, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a Given meridian.

3. (physics)

Defn: one of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which A polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force Which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a Magnet; the north pole of a needle.

4. The firmament; the sky. [poetic] Shoots against the dusky pole. Milton.

5. (geom.)

Defn: see polarity, and polar, n. Magnetic pole. See under magnetic. -- poles of the earth, or terrestrial poles (geog.), the two Opposite points on the earth's surface through which its axis passes. -- poles of the heavens, or celestial poles, the two opposite points In the celestial sphere which coincide with the earth's axis Produced, and about which the heavens appear to revolve.