pole position

:  a long slender usually cylindrical object (such as a length of wood)

:  a shaft which extends from the front axle of a wagon between wheelhorses and by which the wagon is drawn :  tongue

:  a long staff of wood, metal, or fiberglass used in the pole vault

:  to act upon with a pole

:  to impel or push with a pole

:  to propel a boat with a pole

:  either extremity of an axis of a sphere and especially of the earth's axis

:  either of two related opposites

:  a point of guidance or attraction

:  an act of placing or arranging: such as

:  the laying down of a proposition or thesis

:  an arranging in order

:  to put in a certain position