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  1. noun A small body of still water.
  2. noun An accumulation of standing liquid; a puddle: a pool of blood.
  3. noun A deep or still place in a stream.
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  • The guy who got Christie Brinkley to jump naked into a pool is a hero to many. —  TV Envy
  • Drop your chao in the EXACT corner of the pool were the wall is and it should climb the rock wall!
  • The clear water artificial lagoons, transparent to a depth of 35 meters and unparalleled design and construction methods of the pool are the brainchild of —  America Zoom
  • Those superior souls who hang out at Diva's Oasis, where the pool is always full of blue Kool-Aid, won't notice. —  RedState
  • Amy pulled open to the gate to see Xander standing by the pool were an very wet Faith treading water. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
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pool:   pools ·  pooling ·  pooled
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  1. Middle English, from Old English pōl.
  2. French poule, hen, stakes, booty, from Old French, hen, young chicken, from Latin pullus, young of an animal; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Anglo-Saxon pōl = OFries. pol = Dutch poel = Middle Low German pōl, Low German pōl, pohl, pul = Middle High German phuol, pfuol, German pfuhl = Icelandic pollr = Swedish Danish pöl, pool; prob. of Celtic origin: from Irish poll, pull, a hole, pit, also mire, dirt, = Gaelic poll, a hole, pit, bog, pond, pool, also mire, mud, = Welsh pwll = Cornish pol = Manx poyll, a pool, puddle, = Breton poull, a pool; cf. Latin pālus (pālūd-), a marsh, = Greek πηλός, mud: see palus. Cf. pill, from the same source.
  2. Formerly poule; from French poule, pool, stakes (= Spanish polla, pool, stakes, = Portuguese polha, a mark or counter in certain games), literally ‘the hen’ (the stakes being regarded as eggs to be gained from the hen), a particular use of French poule (= Spanish polla = Portuguese polha, a hen), from Middle Latin pulla, feminine, hen, from L.pullus, masculine, a chicken, a young animal: see pullet. The same element occurs prob. in polecat.
  3. (pool, n.
 

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