a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.

a telephone pole; a fishing pole.

Northeastern U.S. a long, tapering piece of wood or other material that extends from the front axle of a vehicle between the animals drawing it.

Nautical .

a light spar.

that part of a mast between the uppermost standing rigging and the truck.

the lane of a racetrack nearest to the infield; the inside lane. Compare post 1 ( def. 5 ) .

a unit of length equal to 16 1 / 2 feet (5 m); a rod.

a square rod, 30 1 / 4 square yards (25.3 sq. m).

to furnish with poles.

to push, strike, or propel with a pole

to pole a raft.

Baseball . to make (an extra-base hit) by batting the ball hard and far

He poled a triple to deep right-center.

Metallurgy . to stir (molten metal, as copper, tin, or zinc) with poles of green wood so as to produce carbon, which reacts with the oxygen present to effect deoxidation.

to propel a boat, raft, etc., with a pole

to pole down the river.

under bare poles

Nautical . (of a sailing ship) with no sails set, as during a violent storm.

stripped; naked; destitute

The thugs robbed him and left him under bare poles.

noun

beam , extremity , flagpole , flagstaff , leg , mast , pile , plank , rod , shaft , spar , staff , stake , standard , stave , stick , stilt , stud , terminus , axis , bar , boom , caber , guide , pike , polack , polander , post , wand