pole arctic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pole + arctic, after Middle French pôle arctique, Late Latin polus arcticus.

Noun[edit]

pole arctic

  1. (obsolete) The pole star. [14th–18th c.]
    • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Court:
      Whan Luna, full of mutabylyte, / As Emperes the dyademe hath worne / Of our pole artyke [...].
    • 1750, William Ellis, The Modern Husbandman, IV.1:
      Now Phoebus ascends to the utmost limits of the Zodiac towards the Pole Arctic.
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