Words That Start With: POLE

• an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade

• a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick

• fell with or as if with a poleax

• a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)

• a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)

• of or involving dispute or controversy

• American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

• dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened

• a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water

• A Greek city-state.

• a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic

• a native or inhabitant of Poland

• one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions

• a linear measure of 16.5 feet

• a square rod of land

• one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere

• one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface

• a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

• a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting

• one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated

• propel with a pole

• support on poles

• deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole

• a draft horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle