polling booth

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polling booth - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Polling \Poll"ing\, n. [See Poll the head.]
     1. The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or
        hedges.
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     2. Plunder, or extortion. [Obs.] --E. Hall.
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     3. The act of voting, or of registering a vote.
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     Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an
        election is done; a polling place.
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polling booth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  polling booth
      n 1: a temporary booth in a polling place which people enter to
           cast their votes