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1. A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). 2. An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement. 3. A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression. 4. A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. 5. A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar. 6. An instrument for measuring. 7. A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole. 8. any rod-shaped bacterium 
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