Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Number.

(obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.

(obsolete) Speech; language.

(obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.

(legal, obsolete) A count; declaration.

(rare, or, archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.

* (John Dryden)

Both number twice a day the milky dams; And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.

(rare, or, archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.

(rare, or, archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.

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A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.

* Hooker

the ignorant, who measure by tale , and not by weight

* Milton

And every shepherd tells his tale , / Under the hawthorn in the dale.

* Carew

In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.

* 1843 (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century

They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure

(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.

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(en noun)

Noun

(en noun)

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

*

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(angling) A type of basic fishing rod.

A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole-vaulting.

(slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

(historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).

(auto racing) Pole position.

(analysis) a singularity that behaves like $\backslash frac\{1\}\{z^n\}$ at $z\; =\; 0$

Noun

(en noun)

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).

(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

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

(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function $f(z)$: a point $a$ for which $f(z)\; \backslash rightarrow\; \backslash infty$ as $z\; \backslash rightarrow\; a$.

The function $f(z)\; =\; \backslash frac\{1\}\{z-3\}$ has a single pole at $z\; =\; 3$ .

(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.

* Milton

shoots against the dusky pole