DCHP-1 Online

pole ((n.))

• n. a long pole, often tipped with iron or steel, used for pushing or guiding a canoe or other boat in narrow or shallow streams.

  See also: setting-pole  

  • 1808  (1950)  . . . every Inch must be gained by the Pole or the Line. . . .
  • 1950  The pole and line were used ordinarily in ascending a stream with a swift current. The poles were usually ten feet in length, made of good ash and shod with an iron ferrule at each end.