noun

• (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
• (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.

verb

• (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, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
  "Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center."

noun

• (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
  "In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site."
• (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
• (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
• (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
  "The function f(z)#61;#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;z-3#125; has a single pole at z#61;3."

verb

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