Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
A person from Poland or of Polish descent.
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
A surname.
From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from ...
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He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.