Any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass. There may be 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or even 128 compass points on a compass, depending on its size and accuracy.

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. / To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. / (transitive) To furnish with poles for support. / (transitive) To convey on poles.

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

(transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.

(intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.

(games, uncountable) 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.

(transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.

The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant. / (informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.