Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. · A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice. · A polling place (usually as plural, polling places). · The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
To take, record the votes of (an electorate). · To solicit mock votes from (a person or group). · To vote at an election. · To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, scalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”, adjective), German Low German Polle, Poll (“round object, ball”), German Low German Poller (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”). Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from the notion of "counting heads".
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