His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they
clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
Sir T. North.
2. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop;
-- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll
grass.
Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed That
all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.
Chapman.