pole

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

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

Đồng nghĩa: carriage pole, beam, shaft, drawbar

(fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.

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

(slang)(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) A pole position.

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

(slang, vulgar)A penis.

(slang)(cricket, slang) A wicket, especially in the context of the number of wickets taken by a particular bowler.

Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.

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

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

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

Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

(transitive)To furnish with poles for support.

to pole beans or hops

(transitive)To convey on poles.

to pole hay into a barn

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

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

(transitive)(transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.

to pole copper

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