We are the greater poll, and in true fear
They gave us our demands. Shak.

The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. Shak.

All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. Blackstone.

Poll book, a register of persons entitled to vote at an election. -- Poll evil (Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. -- Poll pick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar. -- Poll tax, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.

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

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

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.

Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. Spenser.

The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. Dryden.

Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms. Milton.

And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. Tickell.

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.