Pole n. 1.A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a)A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back.
(b)A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported.
(d)A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers.
(e)A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
2.A measuring stick; also, a measure of length, or a square measure; a rod; a perch.
Pole bean (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean.
Pole flounder (Zool.), a large deep-water flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; called also craig flounder, and pole fluke.
Pole lathe, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle, and the other to an elastic pole above.
Pole mast (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or from a single tree.
Pole of a lens (Opt.), the point where the principal axis meets the surface.
Pole plate (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters. It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.
