(pōl) noun
1. The head; hence, a person; also, the top or back of the head; crown.
2. A list of persons.
3. The voting at an election; the votes thus registered or voted; also, the place where they are registered or voted: used in the United States in the plural.
4. A poll tax.
5. The blunt or round end of a hammer or ax.
6. A survey of public opinion on a given subject, usually obtained from a sample group.
—v.t.
1. To receive (a specified number of votes).
2. To enrol, as for taxation or voting; register.
3. To cast at the polls.
4. To canvass in a poll (def. 6).
5. To cut off or trim, as hair, horns, etc.; clip; shear.
6. To cut off or trim the hair, horns, top, etc., of: to poll cattle; to poll a tree.
—v.i.
7. To vote at the polls; cast one's vote. ♦ Homophone: pole. [<MDu. polle top of the head]
—poll′er noun

(pol) noun
In Cambridge University, England, a student who contents himself with a degree, without trying for honors. Such students are called collectively the poll. [<Gk. (hoi) polloi (the) many]

(pol) noun
A parrot. Also Poll parrot, Pol′ly.