Maypole

name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A place in England:; A settlement on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall (OS grid ref SV9211).
  3. 3
    A place in England:; A settlement near the village of Chelsfield, borough of Bromley, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4963).
  4. 4
    A place in England:; A village in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5173).
  5. 5
    A place in England:; A settlement in Hoath parish, Canterbury district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2064).
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  1. 6
    A settlement in Whitecastle community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4716).
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day wordnet
  3. 3
    A very tall girl or young lady. idiomatic
  4. 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. 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. 1
    To dance or spin in a circle around something.

    "Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me."

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