poll

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The casting and registering of votes in an election.
2. n. The number of votes cast or recorded.
3. n. The place where votes are cast and registered. Often used in the plural with the.
4. n. A survey of the public or of a sample of public opinion to acquire information.
5. n. The head, especially the top of the head where hair grows.
6. n. The blunt or broad end of a tool such as a hammer or ax.
7. v. To receive (a given number of votes).
8. v. To receive or record the votes of: polling a jury.
9. v. To cast (a vote or ballot).
10. v. To question in a survey; canvass.
11. v. To cut off or trim (hair, horns, or wool, for example); clip.
12. v. To trim or cut off the hair, wool, branches, or horns of: polled the sheep; polled the trees.
13. v. To vote at the polls in an election.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The head, or the rounded back part of the head, of a person; also, by extension, the head of an animal.
2. n. Hence A person, an individual enumerated in a list.
3. n. An enumeration or register of heads or persons, as for the imposition of a poll-tax, or the list or roll of those who have voted at an election.
4. n. The voting or registering of votes at an election, or the place where the votes are taken: in the United States used chiefly in the plural: as, to go to the poll; the polls will close at four.
5. n. A poll-tax.
6. n. The broad end or butt of a hammer.
7. n. The chub or cheven, Leuciscus cephalus. Also called pollard.
8. To remove the top or head of; hence, to cut off the tops of; lop; clip; also, to cut off the hair of; also, to cut, as hair; shear; cut closely; mow; also, to remove the horns of, as cattle: as, to poll tares, hair, wool, or grass.
9. In law, to cut even without indenting, as a deed executed by one party. See deed poll, under deed.
10. To rob; plunder; despoil, as by excessive taxation.
11. To enumerate one by one; enroll in a list or register, as for the purpose of levying a polltax.
12. To pay, as a personal tax.
13. To canvass or ascertain the opinion of.
14. To receive at the polls: as, A polled only 50 votes; also, to cast at the polls: as, a large vote was polled.
15. To vote at the polls; bring to the polls.
16. To vote at a poll; record a vote, as an elector.
17. n. A parrot: also called poll-parrot and polly.
18. n. A student at Cambridge University in England who merely takes a degree, but receives no honors; one who is not a candidate for honors.

Wiktionary

1. n. A pet parrot.
2. n. UK, dated One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
3. n. An election or a survey of a particular group of people.
4. n. usually as plural A place where voters cast ballots.
5. n. Hair.
6. n. The head, especially its top part.
7. v. transitive To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
8. v. transitive To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
9. v. intransitive To vote at an election.
10. v. transitive To cut the hair of (a creature).
11. v. transitive To remove the horns of (an animal).
12. v. transitive, computing, communication To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
13. v. intransitive To be judged in a poll.
14. adj. Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
2. n. Cambridge Univ., Eng. One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
3. n. The head; the back part of the head.
4. n. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
5. n. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
6. n. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors.
7. n. The place where the votes are cast or recorded.
8. n. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
9. n. (Zoöl.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
10. v. To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear
11. v. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off
12. v. obsolete To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
13. v. obsolete To impose a tax upon.
14. v. To pay as one's personal tax.
15. v. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
16. v. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
17. v. (Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation. See Dee� poll.
18. v. To vote at an election.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. convert into a pollard
2. n. the top of the head
3. n. a tame parrot
4. n. the counting of votes (as in an election)
5. v. get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
6. v. get the votes of
7. n. the part of the head between the ears
8. v. vote in an election at a polling station
9. n. an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people