noun

• (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
  "[…]the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll."
• (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
  "We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands."

verb

• (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.
  "Mr. Millbank's friends were not disheartened, as it was known that the leading members of Mr. Rigby's Committee had polled; whereas his opponent's were principally reserved."
• (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
  "when he [Absalom] polled his head"

adj

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

noun

• (UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.