EGAVE

maypole

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
    How would you like the maypole decorated?
  2. noun A very tall girl or young lady.
  3. noun A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.
  4. noun A penis, especially a large one.
  5. verb To dance or spin in a circle around something.

Similar words

flagpole staff barberpole clothes pole barber's pole clothespole yoke flagstaff pavilion milkmaid's yoke

Often followed by

of dance and in was dancing is inn at

Word family

Maypole Maypoles maypoles

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