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▸ noun: A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
▸ noun: (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
▸ noun: A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
▸ noun: (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
▸ noun: (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
▸ noun: (motor racing) A pole position.
▸ noun: (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
▸ noun: (vulgar, slang) A penis.
▸ verb: To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
▸ verb: To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
▸ verb: (transitive) To convey on poles.
▸ verb: (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
▸ verb: (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
▸ verb: (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
▸ noun: Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
▸ noun: A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
▸ noun: (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
▸ noun: (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
▸ noun: (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
▸ noun: (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
▸ noun: Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
▸ verb: (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
▸ noun: A person from Poland or of Polish descent.
▸ noun: A surname.
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rod,
punt,
terminal,
celestial pole,
magnetic pole,
perch,
totem,
flagpole,
vaulter,
crossarm,
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