DCHP-1 Online

poling

• n. the practice of using a setting-pole.

  See also: setting-pole  

  • 1811  (1950)  . . . the poling [was] very bad.
  • 1905  (1954)  The hardest work is at muddy portages, and in getting through muddy lakes, where the water is low, and the bottom too soft for "poling."
  • 1965  The steep climb up is achieved by a bruising marathon of poling, tracking, portaging, and wading. . . .