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totem pole definition

totem pole

  1. a pole or post carved and painted with totems, often erected in front of their dwellings by Indian tribes of the NW coast of North America
  2. a hierarchical system at the top of the educational totem pole

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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