These are the meanings of the letters LLOPY when you unscramble them.
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Ploy (n.)
Sport; frolic.
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Ploy (v. i.)
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
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Poll (n.)
A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
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Poll (n.)
One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
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Poll (n.)
The head; the back part of the head.
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Poll (n.)
A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
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Poll (n.)
Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
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Poll (n.)
The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
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Poll (n.)
The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
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Poll (n.)
The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
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Poll (n.)
The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
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Poll (v. t.)
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.
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Poll (v. t.)
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.
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Poll (v. t.)
To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
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Poll (v. t.)
To impose a tax upon.
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Poll (v. t.)
To pay as one's personal tax.
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Poll (v. t.)
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
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Poll (v. t.)
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.
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Poll (v. t.)
To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll.
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Poll (v. i.)
To vote at an election.
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Poly (n.)
A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus.