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POLES

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

POLES is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

POLES root POLE-s

Word family

POLE 1 POLING 3 POLED-d 2

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POLINGS 5
noun
  1. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
  2. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
  3. A type of basic fishing rod.
  4. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
  5. slangA telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
  6. historicalA unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
  7. A pole position.
  8. USslangA rifle.
  9. slangvulgarA penis.
  10. slangA wicket, especially in the context of the number of wickets taken by a particular bowler.
    • Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.
  11. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
  12. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
  13. broadlyfigurativelyAny of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
    • In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site.
  14. A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
  15. A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
  16. For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
    • The function f(z)#61;#92;frac#123;1#125;#123;z-3#125; has a single pole at z#61;3.
  17. obsoleteThe firmament; the sky.
  18. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
verb
  1. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
    • Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
  2. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
    • He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
  3. transitiveTo furnish with poles for support.
    • to pole beans or hops
  4. transitiveTo convey on poles.
    • to pole hay into a barn
  5. transitiveTo stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
  6. transitiveTo strike (the ball) very hard.
  7. transitiveTo treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
    • to pole copper
  8. transitiveTo induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.