Polling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Poll \Poll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Polled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Polling}.]
     1. To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or
        end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head;
        to poll a tree.
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              When he [Absalom] pollled his head.   --2 Sam. xiv.
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              His death did so grieve them that they polled
              themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's
              hairs.                                --Sir T.
                                                    North.
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     2. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow
        or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to
        poll wool; to poll grass.
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              Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he
              had decreed
              That all the counsels of their war he would poll off
              like it.                              --Chapman.
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     3. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.]
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              Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     4. To impose a tax upon. [Obs.]
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     5. To pay as one's personal tax.
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              The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     6. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to
        enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by
        one.
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              Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize
              in number those of his three kingdoms. --Milton.
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     7. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call
        forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes
        more than his opponent.
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              And poll for points of faith his trusty vote.
                                                    --Tickell.
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     8. (Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight
        line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See {Dee?
        poll}. --Burrill.
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     {To poll a jury}, to call upon each member of the jury to
        answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict
        which has been rendered.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Polling \Poll"ing\, n. [See {Poll} the head.]
     1. The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or
        hedges.
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     2. Plunder, or extortion. [Obs.] --E. Hall.
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     3. The act of voting, or of registering a vote.
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     {Polling booth}, a temporary structure where the voting at an
        election is done; a polling place.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  polling
       
          {poll}