Polestars is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 851 anagrams from letters in polestars (aeloprsst).
First recorded in 1545-55; pole2 + star
So that could well be the "polestar" standing needle slim behind them—and not the notorious "Solar Queen."
At night fix the dial so that the twelve o'clock line points exactly to north, as determined by the polestar.
With this last link in a strange chain of evidence I close my diary of the voyage of the polestar.
Was the polestar ever obscured by the interposition of a world in formation?
The polestar, which you tell me may be my guide, is often for a long time concealed by impenetrable clouds.
It is the polestar of their system, and everything else has been subject to its influence.
It was not the polestar he lost sight of, or the compass he mistrusted; it was the sea-worthiness of the vessel.