polled

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.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. [1913 Webster]

When he [Absalom] pollled his head.— 2 Sam. xiv. 26.[1913 Webster]

His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.— Sir T. North.[1913 Webster]

2.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. [1913 Webster]

Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.— Chapman.[1913 Webster]

3.To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]

4.To impose a tax upon. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

5.To pay as one's personal tax. [1913 Webster]

The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

6.To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. [1913 Webster]

Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

7.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. [1913 Webster]

And poll for points of faith his trusty vote.— Tickell.[1913 Webster]

8.(Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee? poll. --Burrill. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

To poll a jury, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered. [1913 Webster]