But a frowsy-Polled messenger just at that delicious moment of warmth and reverie threw open the front door without the ceremony of knocking, and a blast of wind swirled after him.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
Had Edinburgh been Polled, the brethren knew that they would have been outvoted.
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang
It is usually placed amongst the branches of the hill oak, where it has been Polled, and the thickly growing shoots afford a good cover; but sometimes it is on the top of a small slender sapling.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume