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Poller

Poller \Poll"er\ (p[=o]l"[~e]r), n. [From Poll] One who polls; specifically:

  1. One who polls or lops trees.

  2. One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.]

  3. One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

  4. One who registers voters, or one who enters his name as a voter.

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poller

n. 1 one who polls or lops trees 2 one who cuts hair; a barber 3 one who votes 4 one who registers voters or conducts a poll 5 (context computing English) a task or process that periodically checks for a condition being satisfied, such as the availability of new data

Usage examples of "poller".

You can do it out in the countryside somewhere, far from any possible RFID poller, although there are obvious risks to carrying large sums of cash to an isolated rendezvous.

Manhattan Simplex Distributing, but rumour had it that using Lou Poller as a front, Lansky had helped the teamsters to take over the Miami National Bank, as recently as 1958.

In 1965, when Americans were averaging about an hour and a half a day, pollers asked whether they would like to watch more, or whether they would watch more if they could find better shows.

So a decade later, in 1975, the same pollers were shocked to discover that television time had risen by half, to more than two hours a day.