pole arctic en · NOUN
Etymology
From pole + arctic, after Middle French pôle arctique, Late Latin polus arcticus.
Meanings
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(obsolete) The pole star.
Whan Luna, full of mutabylyte, As Emperes the dyademe hath worne Of our pole artyke […]
1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Court:Now Phoebus ascends to the utmost limits of the Zodiac towards the Pole Arctic.
1750, William Ellis, The Modern Husbandman, IV.1: