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Definition of Polled
1. a. Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically:
Definition of Polled
1. Verb. (past of poll) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polled
1. poll [v] - See also: poll
Medical Definition of Polled
1. Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically: Lopped; said of trees having their tops cut off. Cropped; hence, bald; said of a person. "The polled bachelor." Having cast the antlers; said of a stag. Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polled
Literary usage of Polled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by American Genetic Association (1907)
"I got in conversation with one of these gentlemen and found that he had been
crossing those Herefords with polled Durhams. The Hereford white face is a ..."
2. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1920)
"CHAPTER XL THE RED polled The native home of Red polled cattle is in England,
... Others have attributed the ancestry to the wild white-polled sort. ..."
3. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1906)
"CHAPTER XXVII THE polled DURHAM The origin of the polled Durham. In consideration
of the fact . that polled Durham cattle are either pure-bred Shorthorns or ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"polled Durhams, as a breed, have the unique distinction of being the only breed
of cattle ... Like the Shorthorn, the polled Durham is massive in size, ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"St. 310, the court expressly evaded a decision from the question as to whether
the court has a right to refuse the request to have the jury polled, ..."
6. Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William McCombie, James Macdonald (1894)
"polled cows, of any age, 1st prize. Pairs of polled breeding cows, 1st prize.
... polled oxen, one year old, 1st prize. Society's Challenge Cup, for the ..."
7. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1881)
"The breeds of polled Cattle which we now possess must therefore be regarded ...
Quite probably a polled strain sprang up by accident, or by what Darwin says ..."
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