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Encyclopedia Britannica



POLL

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 1 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
POLL , strictly the head, in men or animals.
Skeat
  connects the word with O. Swed. kolle (initial p and k being interchange-able) and considers a Celtic origin probable; cf. Irish coil, Welsh col,
peak
 , summit. " Poll " is chiefly used in various senses derived from that of a unit in an enumeration of persons or things, e.g. poll-tax (q.v.), or " challenge to the polls " in the case of a jury (q.v.). The most
familiar
  derivative uses are those connected with voting at
parliamentary
  or other elections; thus " to poll " is to vote or to secure a number of votes, and " the poll," the voting, the number of votes cast, or the time during which voting takes place. The verb " to poll " also means to clip or shear the top of anything, hence " polled " of hornless cattle, or " deed-poll " (i.e. a deed with smooth or unindented edges, as distinguished from an "
indenture
  "). A tree which has been "polled," or cut back close in order to induce it to make short bushy growth, is called a " pollard."
At the university of
Cambridge
 , a " pass " degree is known as a " poll-degree." This is generally explained as from the
Greek
  of aoXXoi, the many, the common
people
 .


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