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jone (pole) joan [ ? perhaps a variant of gin (aphetic form of engine) device, contrivance] Maritimes

• n. a long pole set upright in the water, its butt-end anchored in a block of concrete, a buoyed hawser being attached to the top for the mooring of boats.

  See also: pryor (pole)  

  • 1945  Now came a time when we kept our boat on a joan-pole about a hundred yards off-shore from the landing place.
  • 1953  No houses nor fish-stores had stood among the rocks, no small boats had ridden at jone-poles, no vessels at anchor, when Prince Nickerson and his bride came to town.
  • 1965  . . . the larger fishing-boats which bring visitors to the island must tie up at the jone, a hundred and fifty yards offshore, then transfer their passengers to a skiff and row them to the slip.