Definitions
the counting of votes (as in an election)
Word origin
From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).
Used in a sentence
“The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.”
“All soldiers quartered in place are to remove […] and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.”
“The other returns having come in, the result of the poll, that Sir James Graham had been superseded by Major Aglionby, was declared at Carlisle soon after 11 a.m.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Vote count or survey”4 letters
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