Pool Definition
(intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Other Word Forms of Pool
Noun
Origin of Pool
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From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool"), from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond"), from Proto-Indo-European *bale- (“bog, marsh"). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool"), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool"), West Frisian poel (“pool"), Dutch poel (“pool"), Low German Pohl, Pul (“pool"), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole"), Danish pøl (“puddle"), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool"), Icelandic pollur (“puddle"), Lithuanian bala (“bog, marsh, swamp, pool"), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression"), Russian болото (boloto, “swamp, bog, marsh").
From Wiktionary
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French poule (“collective stakes in a game") (The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of poule (“hen"), which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner)
From Wiktionary
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French poule hen, stakes, booty from Old French hen, young chicken from Latin pullus young of an animal pau-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old English pōl
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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