maypole

noun

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.”

   “The seemingly innocent Maypole is a relic of witchcraft.”

   “At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.”

2. (idiomatic)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. (euphemistic)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

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.”

name

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