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In mathematics: The cointersection point of the joins when two correlated polystigms have the joins of their paired dots and codots copunctal.
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In function-theory, a non-essential singular point.
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In cytology, one of the ends of the achromatic spindle in mitosis, or indirect cell-division. The opposite end is sometimes called the antipole.
To furnish with poles for support: as, to pole beans.
To bear or convey on poles.
To impel by means of a pole, as a boat; push forward by the use of poles.
In copper-refining, to stir with a pole.
To use a pole; push or impel a boat with a pole.
An obsolete spelling of poll.
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A long, slender, tapering piece of wood, such as the trunk of a tree of any size, from which the branches have been cut; a piece of wood (or metal) of much greater length than thickness, especially when more or less rounded and tapering.
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Specifically— A rod used in measuring.
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In a two-horse vehicle, a long tapering piece of wood, forming the shaft or tongue, carrying the neck-yoke or the pole-straps, and sometimes the whiffletrees, by means of which the carriage is drawn.
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A fishing-rod.
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A bean-pole or hop-pole.
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A ship's mast.
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A perch or rod, a measure of length containing 16½ feet or 5½ yards; also, a measure of surface, a square pole denoting 5½ × 5½ yards, or 30¼ square yards.
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A flatfish, Pleuronectes or Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, also called pole-dab.
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That part of the sperm-whale's lower jaw which holds the teeth. See pan, 12.
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One of the two points in which the axis of the earth produced cuts the celestial sphere; the fixed point about which (on account of the revolution of the earth) the stars appear to revolve. These points are called the poles of the world, or the celestial poles.
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Either of the two points on the earth's surface in which it is cut by the axis of rotation.
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In general, a point on a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle of the sphere.
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Hence In any more or less spherical body, one of two opposite points of the surface in any way distinguished; or, when there is a marked equator, one of the two points most remote from it: as, in botany, the poles of certain spores or sporidia.
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The star which is nearest the pole of the earth; the pole-star.