Vocabulary : Poll to Pollen
Poll : A parrot; -- familiarly so called. ;; One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. ;; The head; the back part of the head. ;; A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. ;; Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. ;; The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. ;; The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. ;; The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. ;; The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a). ;; To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree. ;; To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass. ;; To extort from; to plunder; to strip. ;; To impose a tax upon. ;; To pay as one's personal tax. ;; To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroPollack : A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack. ;; The American pollock; the coalfish.
Pollage : A head or poll tax; hence, extortion.
Pollan : A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring.
Pollard : A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. ;; A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. ;; A fish, the chub. ;; A stag that has cast its antlers. ;; A hornless animal (cow or sheep). ;; To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.
