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pike-pole Lumbering 
n. See 1945 quote. [See picture at pike-pole.]
See also: pike
- 1830 How delightful to . . . devote the livelong day to punching alligator-gars on the belly with a pike-pole!
- 1945 First of all, men walking over the loose timber, in their spiked boots, sorted out with their long pike-poles (which were like twenty-foot boat-hooks with a sharp point and hook) the longer, thinner pieces to make the bottom tier . . .
- 1964 . . . a powered boom scooter rides herd on logs in the water where the timber used to be shoved around by a man with caulk boots, a pike pole and the agility of a cougar.
- 1830 How delightful to . . . devote the livelong day to punching alligator-gars on the belly with a pike-pole!