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poling-boat North 
n. See 1940 quote.
- 1900 But in the morning Madeline shook the dust of the Lower River from her moccasins, and with her husband, in a poling-boat, went to live on the Upper River. . . .
- 1940 The most common boat on the rivers of the North is the poling boat which penetrates where the larger vessels could not go. Typically the poling boat is from ten to twenty feet long, from three to five feet wide on top, and has a narrow bottom eighteen to thirty inches wide. It has a nose shaped something like a shovel which is raised high above the water so that it does not bury in the current.
- 1958 And so a man in a poling-boat can drift downstream for mile after mile without seeing any sign of human-kind. . . .
- 1900 But in the morning Madeline shook the dust of the Lower River from her moccasins, and with her husband, in a poling-boat, went to live on the Upper River. . . .