pole
noun
[ pəʊl ]
• a long, slender, rounded piece of wood or metal, typically used with one end placed in the ground as a support for something.
• "a tent pole"
Similar:
post,
pillar,
stanchion,
standard,
paling,
pale,
stake,
stick,
picket,
palisade,
support,
prop,
batten,
mast,
bar,
shaft,
rail,
rod,
beam,
spar,
crosspiece,
upright,
vertical,
staff,
stave,
cane,
spike,
baton,
truncheon,
• another term for perch3 (sense 1 of the noun).
pole
verb
• propel (a boat) by pushing a pole against the bottom of a river, canal, or lake.
• "the boatman appeared, poling a small gondola"
Origin:
late Old English pāl (in early use without reference to thickness or length), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch paal and German Pfahl, based on Latin palus ‘stake’.
pole
noun
• either of the two locations ( North Pole or South Pole ) on the surface of the earth (or of a celestial object) which are the northern and southern ends of the axis of rotation.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin polus ‘end of an axis’, from Greek polos ‘pivot, axis, sky’.
pole
noun
• short for pole position.
Pole
noun
• a native or inhabitant of Poland, or a person of Polish descent.
Origin:
via German from Polish Polanie, literally ‘field-dwellers’, from pole ‘field’.
