Definition of "maypole"

The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 212

and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.

1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […]

Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me.

2010, Julie Clark, Asperger's in Pink, page 223

The line jerked and maypoled itself around the rod.

2011, Simon Brett, Cast in Order of Disappearance