pole arctic

noun

noun

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

Obsolete The pole star.

Whan Luna, full of mutabylyte, As Emperes the dyademe hath worne Of our pole artyke […]1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Court:
Now Phoebus ascends to the utmost limits of the Zodiac towards the Pole Arctic.1750, William Ellis, The Modern Husbandman, IV.1:

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