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.