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POLL , strictly the See also: head, in men or animals. See also:Skeat connects the word with O. Swed. kolle (initial p and k being interchange-able) and considers a See also:Celtic origin probable; cf. Irish coil, Welsh See also:col, See also:peak, See also:summit. " Poll " is chiefly used in various senses derived from that of a unit in an enumeration of persons or things, e.g. poll-tax (q.v.), or " See also:challenge to the polls " in the See also:case of a See also:jury (q.v.). The most See also:familiar derivative uses are those connected with voting at See also:parliamentary or other elections; thus " to poll " is to See also:vote or to secure a number of votes, and " the poll," the voting, the number of votes See also:cast, or the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time during which voting takes See also:place. The verb " to poll " also means to clip or shear the See also:top of anything, hence " polled " of hornless See also:cattle, or " See also:deed-poll " (i.e. a deed with smooth or unindented edges, as distinguished from an " See also:indenture "). A See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree which has been "polled," or cut back See also:close in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to induce it to make See also:short bushy growth, is called a " See also:pollard."
At the university of See also:Cambridge, a " pass " degree is known as a " poll-degree." This is generally explained as from the See also:Greek of aoXXoi, the many, the See also:common See also:people.
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