Meaning

1 senses
  1. Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

    Poll Hereford

    Red Poll cows

Examples

75 sentences
  1. Don't believe the polls.

    Не треба вірити опитуванням. — deniko

    deGlaub nicht, was die Umfragen sagen. — Roujin

  2. Let's take a quick poll.

  3. In the polls, both parties are on par.

  4. The dark horse candidate was losing in the polls before the primary.

  5. I don't trust polls.

Origin

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōl

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).

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