What is "maypoles"

Usage examples of "maypoles".

About a dozen were thus inspected: short ones with big heavy limbs, tall ones suggesting maypoles, dark ones with coarse stiff hair, fair ones with the whitest of skins, quick ones and slow ones, ugly ones and others who were pleasant-looking.

Weddings, apple blossom, maypoles, no more misunderstandingsaway with the old, on with the new.

I first saw a crowd of children playing maypoles with one in Hyde Park.