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pole arctic en · NOUN

Etymology

From pole + arctic, after Middle French pôle arctique, Late Latin polus arcticus.

Meanings

  1. (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: