Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POLE, n.² [Fr. pole; It. and Sp. polo; G. Dan. and Sw. pol; D. pool; L. polus; Gr. πολος, from πολεω, to turn.]

1. In astronomy, one of the extremities of the axis on which the sphere revolves. These two points are called the poles of the world.
2. In spherics, a point equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle of the sphere; or it is a point 90º distant from the plane of a circle, and in a line passing perpendicularly through the center, called the axis. Thus the zenith and nadir are the poles of the horizon.
3. In geography, the extremity of the earth's axis, or one of the points on the surface of our globe through which the axis passes.
4. The star which is vertical to the pole of the earth; the pole-star. Poles of the ecliptic, are two points on the surface of the sphere, 23º 30' distant from the poles of the world. Magnetic poles, two points in a lodestone corresponding to the poles of the world; the one pointing to the north, the other to the south.