† poˈlartike Obs.,
i.e. pole arctic, the north pole or pole-star: see pole n.2 1, Arctic.
| c 1391, 1513 [see pole n.2 1]. 1552 Lyndesay Monarche 6321, I se Polartike in the North appeir. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. viii. 90 Was..seine, betueine Pol artik and the Pleiades..a maruellous gret Comet. |