pooledadj.1
/puːld/, U.S. /puld/ Chiefly literary and poetic.
Forming a pool or pools; having or containing a pool or pools. Also figurative.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [adjective] > furnished with or placed in
pooled1882
1882 W. Sharp D. G. Rossetti v. 333 The ‘Stream’ is the brown-pooled, birch-banked Penwhapple, in Ayrshire, that gurgles and lapses from slope to slope till it reaches Girvan Water.
1895 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 10 The pooled waters [of a dam] are in the exclusive interests of West Virginia shippers.
1908 F. Thompson New Poems 173 No more in the poolèd Even Wade her rosy feet, Dawn-flakes no more plash from them To poppies 'mid the wheat.
1947 D. Thomas Let. 20 May in Sel. Lett. (1966) 307 The pooled ponded..garden.
1989 M. C. Smith Polar Star i. iv. 29 It was the smell..of this girl.., her hair matted, her arms, legs and breasts purpled with pooled blood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pooledadj.2
/puːld/, U.S. /puld/ That is shared in common; that has been combined or collected for the common benefit.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > other attributes of investments or capital
sound1601
unexchanged1618
discountable1771
defensive1857
uncalled1869
callable1874
pooled1888
unwatered1893
labile1894
aggressive1899
non-callable1902
geared1930
escrowed1946
undynamized1969
banded1987
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan. 2/2 Negotiations..with a view of extending the pooled area.
1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure xvi. 278 As to the waste of ‘pooled’ machinery, this is a sore point in many counties.
1993 Science 1 Jan. 77/2 We determined both interstrain (using pooled data from all populations) and intrastrain D values.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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