pole arctic

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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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