(slang) In favour or good repute; strait-laced. / (slang) In confusion or error. / (slang) In trouble or difficulty. / (slang, archaic) Drunk.

(embryology) The hemisphere of the blastula which eventually gives rise to the three germ layers and is composed of small cells that are in a state of rapid division.

(embryology) The hemisphere of the blastula opposite to the animal pole comprising large yolk cells dividing at a slower rate that eventually differentiate into the extraembryonic membranes.

(obsolete) A pole for supporting a scaffold.

Alternative form of polesitter / Someone who sits on a pole for an extended period of time, following the fad begun in 1924 by Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly; a flagpole sitter.

Alternative form of tentpole

Alternative form of tentpole

(obsolete) The pole star.

plural of setting pole

A pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water.