<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole</li><li>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</li><li>Nautical. a light spar. that part of a mast between the uppermost standing rigging and the truck</li><li>the lane of a racetrack nearest to the infield; the inside lane</li><li>a unit of length equal to 16½ feet (5 meters); a rod</li><li>a square rod, 30¼ square yards (25.3 square meters)</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to furnish with poles</li><li>to push, strike, or propel with a pole: to pole a raft</li><li>Baseball. to make (an extra-base hit) by batting the ball hard and far: He poled a triple to deep right-center</li><li>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</li><li>to propel a boat, raft, etc., with a pole: to pole down the river</li></ul>