These are the meanings of the letters POLLO when you unscramble them.
- Loop (n.)
A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.
- Loop (n.)
A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight.
- Loop (n.)
A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.
- Loop (n.)
A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- Loop (n.)
A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.
- Loop (n.)
The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment.
- Loop (v. t.)
To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.
- Poll (n.)
A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
- Poll (n.)
A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
- Poll (n.)
One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
- Poll (n.)
Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
- Poll (n.)
The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
- Poll (n.)
The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
- Poll (n.)
The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
- Poll (n.)
The head; the back part of the head.
- Poll (n.)
The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
- Poll (v. i.)
To vote at an election.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Poll (v. t.)
To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
- Poll (v. t.)
To impose a tax upon.
- Poll (v. t.)
To pay as one's personal tax.
- 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.
- 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.
- Polo (n.)
A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.
- Polo (n.)
A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
- Pool (n.)
A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
- Pool (n.)
A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
- Pool (n.)
A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- Pool (n.)
A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.
- Pool (n.)
A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- Pool (n.)
An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- Pool (n.)
Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- Pool (n.)
In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- Pool (n.)
The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- Pool (v. i.)
To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
- Pool (v. t.)
To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.