Synonyms for pole

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pohl

Phonetic Transcription : poʊl

Top 10 synonyms for pole

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Définition of pole

Origin : "stake," late Old English pal "stake, pole, post," a general Germanic borrowing (cf. Old Frisian and Old Saxon pal "stake," Middle Dutch pael, Dutch paal, Old High German pfal, Old Norse pall) from Latin palus "stake" (see pale (n.)).
Racing sense of "inside fence surrounding a course" is from 1851; pole position in auto racing attested from 1904. A ten-foot pole as a metaphoric measure of something one would not touch something (or someone) else with is by 1839, American English. The ten-foot pole was a common tool used to set stakes for fences, etc., and the phrase "Can't touch de bottom with a ten foot pole" is in the popular old minstrel show song "Camptown Races."
"I saw her eat.""No very unnatural occurrence I should think.""But she ate an onion!""Right my boy, right, never marry a woman who would touch an onion with a ten foot pole."["The Collegian," University of Virginia, 1839]

noun bar, post

Example sentences :

If the Pole is surrounded by water, it must be a visible point of land.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various

The Pole being surrounded by water, must be reached by boats.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various

If you will look outside, you will see a flag at the top of a pole.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

But we cannot set up a pendulum to swing at the pole of the earth.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various

The pole and the canopy of the hammock tangled inextricably its occupant.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

Who that has poached a pile does not gravitate there, as the needle to the pole?
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 9, 1870 » by Various

Cook on the backs of the little mirrors hanging from the pole hooks!
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

I may almost say their temperature would be the same at the Equator as the Pole.
Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne

We can return after we have discovered the Pole quite as well as before, and even better.
Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne

But tell me, said Hatteras in a hurried manner; you were not bound for the Pole then yourself?
Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne

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