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Maypole
name, noun, verb
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Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A place in England:; A settlement on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall (OS grid ref SV9211).
- 3 A place in England:; A settlement near the village of Chelsfield, borough of Bromley, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4963).
- 4 A place in England:; A village in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5173).
- 5 A place in England:; A settlement in Hoath parish, Canterbury district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2064).
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- 6 A settlement in Whitecastle community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4716).
Noun
- 1 A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
"How would you like the maypole decorated?"
- 2 a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day wordnet
- 3 A very tall girl or young lady. idiomatic
- 4 A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.
"The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens."
- 5 A penis, especially a large one. euphemistic
"and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant."
Verb
- 1 To dance or spin in a circle around something.
"Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me."
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