poll

IPA: pˈoʊɫ

A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
(now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
A pet parrot.
(UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
A diminutive of the female given name Mary.
A common pet name for a parrot.
A surname transferred from the given name.

(transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
(transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
(intransitive) To vote at an election.
To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
(transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
(transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
(transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
(intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
(obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip. Especially in conjunction with pill for emphasis.
To impose a tax upon.
To pay as one's personal tax.
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
(law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation

(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

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