a1325 St. Benedict (Corpus Cambr.) 82 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 124 (MED) He sei a lite blac polled grom nyme þe monk bi þe sleue..Þe pollede boye vlei anon.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 216 (MED) Neptanabus in þe weye stood myd polled [a1425 Linc. Inn pollid] heued.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Job i. 20 Joob..to-rente hise clothis, and with pollid [a1382 Douce 369(1) shauen; L. tonso] heed he felde doun on the erthe.

1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 299^v Men of meane stature, with..roughe and thyck beardes, and poulde heades.

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 1268/1 A man of talle stature, polled headed, and on the same a rounde Frenche cappe of the best.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxiii. sig. Dd5 These pouled lockes of mine.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. v. 203 Lewd Adulteresses and notorious Whores, (as many polled Nonnes and shorne-frizled English Maddames are).

1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) viii. 144 In the Province Cusco,..are those Auriti or great Ear'd Men,..who alwaies goe poled.

1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ i. 15 Ther short poud heeads, 'bout powther.

1931 T. S. Moore Poems 305 Judas stared upon his father's face, Hueless, and framed by close-polled hair and beard.

1971 D. Dunnett Ringed Castle xiii. 285 A chief..with a flat face and a beard, and his black hair allowed to grow curling over his ears, unlike the polled heads of inferiors.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Compilati, polled by extorcion.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Polled or brybed, compilatus, exactus.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. viii. f.109/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I They cast there theyr hornes, and..remayne polled without any hornes at all.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 633 The horned beast..is apter to fight then the polde sheepe, and also more luxurious among the Ewes.

1758 R. Brown Compl. Farmer (1759) 32 The polled sheep (that is sheep without horns) are reckoned the best breeders.

1797 T. M. in A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 180 (note) The true Suffolk polled cow.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. ii. 59 Some varieties of the common ox are polled.

1867 W. McCombie Cattle iv. 138 Mr. Lyell..has a very good herd of polled Angus cattle.

1909 J. Wilson Evol. Brit. Cattle v. 57 The Sutherland polled cattle are long extinct.

1940 J. Hammond Farm Animals viii. 149 If we mate a polled red Aberdeen Angus bull to a Shorthorn cow we shall obtain polled calves.

2003 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 19 July 19 Back in 2000..he did purchase two Dorset Horns to found the Redhill Dorset Horn flock which runs alongside the polled Dorset flock.

1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xxxvi. 24/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II By reason they had beene so long couered,..buried vnder the sands, they stood as trunked and polled trees.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Fustée Bois de fustée, branchlesse wood; naked, or powled trees.

1792 F. Stone Exam. E. Burke's Refl. Revol. France 33 Your stinted, lopped, polled tree of ‘regulated liberty’, planted in the garden of the establishment.

1827 S. B. H. Judah Buccaneers II. iv. iii. 281 Here and there at the side of the way, were interspersed..the scarred trunks of a stunted polled willow.

1894 Times 31 Mar. 16/2 We have mile after mile of miserable, depressing polled hornbeam.

1946 Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana) 25 July 3/1 A polled oak common in Windsor, where the Britons used to hold meetings.

1995 Afr. Lang. & Cult. (Suppl.) 2 80/2 Úmu|sáilwá, polled tree.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 lxiii. 285 I wish I had it in my power to satisfy E. S. concerning the pollard wheat he mentions; but I can learn nothing of it, unless it is a bearded great wheat, which, in Suffolk, they formerly let stand in the field till the awns dropped off, and then they called it poll'd wheat.

1799 J. Banister Synopsis Husbandry ii. i. 56 Of wheat there are two different species cultivated in this kingdom; namely the smooth or polled wheat, and that with a rough or bearded ear.

1807 Hist. Westminster & Middlesex Elections 414 (heading) A Polled Freeholder's Letter to the Independent Freeholders of Middlesex.

1869 Saint Pauls Jan. 408 (table) 110 English Boroughs polled votes..1868..525,502 against 1865..256,492.

1988 D. P. Fan Predict. Public Opinion from Mass Media iii. 40 It is only necessary that all AP dispatches on a given polled topic have the same prominence.

1994 J. Berman Diaries to Eng. Professor ii. 28 Close to 100 percent of the polled students have reported they were honest in their own diaries.

2008 T. R. Marshall Public Opinion & Rehnquist Court vii. 127 The Rehnquist Court averaged a 33% favorable ranking and ranked third of nine frequently polled institutions.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Polled Deed. See Deed-poll.

1708 tr. J. Cowell Law Dict. at Deed A Polled Deed is a Deed testifying that only one of the Parties to the Bargain, hath put his seal thereto.

1728 A. Ramsay Miser & Minos in Fables & Tales 31 The three-pow'd dog of hell Gowl'd terrible a triple yell; Which rouz'd the snaky Sisters three.

1795 H. Summersett Fate of Sedley I. 59 I would as soon marry a curly-poled nymph from Otaheite.

1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxxii. 608 A bare-polled, goggle-eyed, bigheaded, lumbering personage stood staring at him.

1875 J. G. Wood Man & Beast 65/1 One tall, tan-skinned, black-haired, curly-polled fellow.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 513 Staggering Bob, a white polled calf, thrusts a ruminating head..through the foliage.

1970 Condor 72 95/1 The Black-polled Yellowthroat..is a little known species [of bird].

2000 Land (N. Richmond, New S. Wales) 1 June 52/5 This year's team of seven, clean-polled herd improvers were among the best teams offered by his family.