poll

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The casting and registering of votes in an election.
• noun The number of votes cast or recorded.
• noun The places where votes are cast and registered during an election, considered as a group.
• noun A place where votes are cast and registered.
• noun A survey of the public or of a sample of public opinion to acquire information.
• noun The head, especially the top of the head where hair grows.
• noun The blunt or broad end of a tool such as a hammer or ax.
• intransitive verb To receive (a given number of votes).
• intransitive verb To receive or record the votes of.
• intransitive verb To cast (a vote or ballot).
• intransitive verb To question in a survey; canvass.
• intransitive verb To cut off or trim (hair, horns, or wool, for example); clip.
• intransitive verb To trim or cut off the hair, wool, branches, or horns of.
• intransitive verb To vote at the polls in an election.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The head, or the rounded back part of the head, of a person; also, by extension, the head of an animal.
• noun Hence A person, an individual enumerated in a list.
• noun An enumeration or register of heads or persons, as for the imposition of a poll-tax, or the list or roll of those who have voted at an election.
• noun The voting or registering of votes at an election, or the place where the votes are taken: in the United States used chiefly in the plural: as, to go to the poll; the polls will close at four.
• noun A poll-tax.
• noun The broad end or butt of a hammer.
• noun The chub or cheven, Leuciscus cephalus. Also called pollard.
• noun A student at Cambridge University in England who merely takes a degree, but receives no honors; one who is not a candidate for honors.
• noun A parrot: also called poll-parrot and polly.
• To remove the top or head of; hence, to cut off the tops of; lop; clip; also, to cut off the hair of; also, to cut, as hair; shear; cut closely; mow; also, to remove the horns of, as cattle: as, to poll tares, hair, wool, or grass.
• In law, to cut even without indenting, as a deed executed by one party. See deed poll, under deed.
• To rob; plunder; despoil, as by excessive taxation.
• To enumerate one by one; enroll in a list or register, as for the purpose of levying a polltax.
• To pay, as a personal tax.
• To canvass or ascertain the opinion of.
• To receive at the polls: as, A polled only 50 votes; also, to cast at the polls: as, a large vote was polled.
• To vote at the polls; bring to the polls.
• To vote at a poll; record a vote, as an elector.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
• noun Cambridge Univ., Eng. One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
• intransitive verb To vote at an election.
• noun The head; the back part of the head.
• noun A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
• noun Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
• noun The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors.
• noun The place where the votes are cast or recorded.
• noun The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
• noun (Zoöl.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
• noun a register of persons entitled to vote at an election.
• noun (Far.) an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck.
• noun (Mining) a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar.
• noun a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.
• transitive verb To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear
• transitive verb To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off
• transitive verb obsolete To extort from; to plunder; to strip.