"Poll" Definition

Definitions for the word "Poll" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
1 a (often in pl.) Voting or the counting of votes at an election (go to the polls). B result of voting or number of votes recorded. 2 = *opinion poll. 3 human head. v. 1 a take the vote or votes of. B receive (so many votes). C give (a vote). 2 record the opinion of (a person or group) in an opinion poll. 3 cut off the top of (a tree or plant), esp. Make a pollard of. 4 (esp. As polled adj.) Cut the horns off (cattle). [perhaps from low german or dutch]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
2. slang
at Cambridge, the “ordinary degree” candidates for the B.A. Examination, who do not aspire to the “Honours” list. From the _Greek_, οἱ πόλλοι, “the many.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
3. slang
to beat or distance, as in a race; to utterly vanquish in competition. Term much used by printers.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
4. slang
a female of unsteady character; “POLLED up,” means living with a woman in a state of unmarried impropriety. Also, if a costermonger sees one of his friends walking with a strange woman, he will say to him on the earliest opportunity, “I saw yer when yer was POLLED up.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
5. slang
or POLLING, one thief robbing another of part of the booty. In use in ancient times, _vide Hall’s Union_, 1548.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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