Crossword clues for polled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poll \Poll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polled; p. pr. & vb. n. Polling.]
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To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree.
When he [Absalom] pollled his head.
--2 Sam. xiv. 26.His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
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To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass.
Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.
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To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.]
Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.
--Spenser. To impose a tax upon. [Obs.]
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To pay as one's personal tax.
The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.
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To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms.
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To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
And poll for points of faith his trusty vote.
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(Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee? poll.
--Burrill.To poll a jury, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered.
Polled \Polled\, a. Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically:
Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off.
Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. ``The polled bachelor.''
--Beau. & Fl.Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag.
Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep.
Wiktionary
1 lop; said of trees having their tops cut off. 2 crop; bald. 3 without horns; said of livestock that normally have horns, but which have been bred to be hornless, or which have been dehorned. v
(en-past of: poll)
Usage examples of "polled".
By June of 1973 a Gallup poll showed 67 percent of those polled thought Nixon was involved in the Watergate break-in or lied to cover up.
Vietnam war, only 20 percent of Americans polled thought the collapse of the Saigon government was a threat to United States security.
National Opinion Research Center found that only 12 percent of those it polled thought too much was being spent on arms.
In one survey that showed 5 3 percent of the veterans polled saying they would gladly serve in the Gulf War, 37 percent said they would not.
In that month, when people being polled were reminded of the huge costs of the war, only 17 percent said the war was not worth it.
Longwell polled conservative kids in 2003 and got results similar to mine.
You see, something like eight percent of the people polled who said they were going to vote for Calhoun said they were voting for him only because they thought I was gay.
Kienthaliens demanding the adhesion of French Socialists to the Internationale at Moscow, under the leadership of Premier Lenin of the Bolshevist government polled only 270 votes.
In state elections from Massachusetts to Kansas the Greenback and labor candidates polled from 5 to 15 per cent of the total vote, and in most cases the Greenback vote would probably have been much greater had not one or the other, and in some cases both, of the old parties incorporated part of the Greenback demands in their platforms.
Lloyd Stanhope popped up by512 Diana Gabaldonmy elbow, looking like a very animated boiled egg in his nightshirt, his polled head startlingly round and pale without his wig.
She had once stood for the Borough Council as an anti-fluoride candidate and polled fifty-eight votes.
Oi polled ye many but my fews were chousen (Voter, voter, early voter, he was never too oft for old Sarum): terminals four my staties were, the Geenar, the Greasouwea, the Debwickweck, the Mifgreawis.