poll tax
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Poll n.
1. The head; the back part of the head. “All flaxen was his poll.”
2. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
We are the greater poll, and in true fear
They gave us our demands. --Shak.
The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. --Shak.
3. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
4. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. --Blackstone.
5. pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
6. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
7. Zool. The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
Poll book, a register of persons entitled to vote at an election.
Poll evil Far., an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck.
Poll pick Mining, a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar.
Poll tax, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.
poll tax
n : a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a
requirement for the right to vote