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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 (O. Fr. chalonge, calenge, &c., from Lat. calumnia, originally meaning trickery, from calvi, to deceive, hence a false accusation, a " calumny ")

challenge to the polls " in the See also:

case of a See also:

JURY

jury (q.v.). The most See also:

FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar derivative uses are those connected with voting at See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary or other elections; thus " to poll " is to See also:

VOTE

vote or to secure a number of votes, and " the poll," the voting, the number of votes See also:

CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast, or the See also:

time during which voting takes See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place. The verb " to poll " also means to clip or shear the See also:

TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top of anything, hence " polled " of hornless See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, or " See also:

DEED (in O. Eng. dead, from the stem of the verb " to do ")

deed-poll " (i.e. a deed with smooth or unindented edges, as distinguished from an " See also:

INDENTURE (through 0. Fr. endenture from a legal Latin term indent-ura, indentare, to cut into teeth, to give a jagged edge, in modurn dentium, like teeth)

indenture "). A See also:

tree which has been "polled," or cut back See also:

close in See also:

order to induce it to make See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short bushy growth, is called a " See also:

POLLARD, EDWARD ALBERT (1828–1872)

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

common See also:

PEOPLE

people.

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