Definition of pole

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Pole (n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle..

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Rantipole :: Rantipole (a.) Wild; roving; rakish.
Pole :: Pole (n.) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian..
Polish :: Polish (n.) The language of the Poles.
Flail :: Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely..
Circumpolar :: Circumpolar (a.) About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars..
Poke :: Poke (n.) A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward..
Polonaise :: Polonaise (a.) Of or pertaining to the Poles, or to Poland..
Electro-puncture :: Electro-puncture (n.) An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus..
Pole :: Pole (v. t.) To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops..
Shin :: Shin (v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up..
Neap :: Neap (n.) The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
Polecat :: Polecat (n.) The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.
Spired :: Spire (n.) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n..
Metropole :: Metropole (n.) A metropolis.
Standard :: Standard (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing..
Bonapartean :: Bonapartean (a.) Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.
Climate :: Climate (v. i.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day..
Nadir :: Nadir (n.) That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand..
Upher :: Upher (n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split..
Triangle :: Triangle (n.) A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars..
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