polls

1. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
2. A formal election.

   The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.

3. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)

   The polls close at 8 p.m.

4. (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
5. (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
6. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
7. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

1. To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
2. To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
3. To vote at an election.
4. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.

   He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.

5. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.

   to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass

6. To cut the hair of (a creature).
7. To remove the horns of (an animal).
8. To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.

   to poll a tree

9. (communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).

   The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.

10. (with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
11. To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
12. To impose a tax upon.
13. To pay as one's personal tax.
14. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
15. To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.

    a polled deed

noun

A pet parrot.

noun

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