Definition of "pole"

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.  quotations  examples

A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.  examples

(fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.  examples

A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.  examples

(slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

(historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (1⁄4 chain or 5+1⁄2 yards).

(motor racing) Pole position.  examples

(US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.

(vulgar, slang) A penis.

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.  examples

To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.  examples

(transitive) To furnish with poles for support.  examples

(transitive) To convey on poles.  examples

(transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.  examples

(transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.  quotations  examples

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.  examples

A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).  examples

(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.  examples

(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.  examples

(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f ( z ) , any point a for which f ( z ) → ∞ as z → a .  examples

(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.  quotations

Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.  examples

(transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.  examples