maypole

name

1. A surname.
2. A place in England:
3. A place in England:
4. A place in England:
5. A place in England:
6. A settlement in Whitecastle community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4716).

noun

Etymology: Compound of May + pole, so called in reference to its use on May Day.

1. A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.

   “How would you like the maypole decorated?”

   “The maypole, the focal point of many traditional spring games and festivities, is believed to be a relic of ancient phallic worship.”

2. A very tall girl or young lady.
3. A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.

   “The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.”

4. A penis, especially a large one.

   “and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.”

verb

Etymology: Compound of May + pole, so called in reference to its use on May Day.

1. To dance or spin in a circle around something.

   “Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me.”

   “The line jerked and maypoled itself around the rod.”