pole

Mane (English)

Noun

1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
2. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
3. A type of basic fishing rod.
4. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
5. (slang) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
6. A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
7. Pole position.
8. (slang) A rifle.
9. (slang) A penis.

Verb

1. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
2. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
3. To furnish with poles for support.
4. To convey on poles.
5. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
6. To strike (the ball) very hard.
7. To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.

Verb

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

Synonyms

rod

post

stick

staff

stake

shaft

pillar

bar

perch

column

cane

club

spar

stanchion

pile

punt

terminal

picket

peg

mast

lever

sceptre

crowbar

handle

wand

beam

electrode

stave

cudgel

magnetic pole

baton

tree

🌳

mace

axle

wood

🪵

long stick

scepter

celestial pole

axis

polar regions

side

paddle

pale

punt-pole

canoe pole

walking stick

log

prop

stem

rode

row

scratch

setting pole

sick

🤢

slug

sod

spear

spile

stab

stalk

sting

stitch

strut

stump

support

thrust

tongue

👅

top

🔝

tower

truncheon

umbilicus

upright

verge

vote

wing

🪽

yoke

block of wood

electric pole

fishing pole

go ashore

omphalos

omphalus

P

P

tree stump

bamboo pole

violin neck

lathi

rheophore

trabecula

stroke

wooden pole

barge pole

carrying pole

litter shaft

polar area

perch1

nombril

barling

billot

timber stick

poles and towers

culminating point

upright bar

wire pole

cross-pole

bellybutton

standard

stripperpole

part

acnode

ballot

bat

🦇

beanpole

belly button

big stick

bite

bludgeon

board

boat hook

boat-hook

catch

cause

center

centre

climax

cylinder

divide

draw

extreme

faction

ferule

fishing rod

fork

fulcrum

group

hilum

hook

🪝

hub

limit point

moves

navel

neck

oar

party

🥳

pier

pierce

pikestaff

pin down

pivot

plume

polar

portion

prick

pull

pylon

rail

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/pəʊl/

Etîmolojî (English)

Inherited from Middle English: pole

Inherited from Old English: pāl

Cognate with skotî: pale

Cognate with frîsiya bakur: pul

Cognate with frîsî: poal

Cognate with holendî: paal

Cognate with almanî: Pfahl

Cognate with danmarkî: pæl

Cognate with swêdî: påle

Cognate with îzlendî: páll

Cognate with Old English: fæc

In summary

From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).