pole
/poʊl/ verb C2- To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. · Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
- To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. · He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
- To furnish with poles for support. · to pole beans or hops
- To convey on poles. · to pole hay into a barn
- To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- To strike (the ball) very hard.
- To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen. · to pole copper
He/she/it poles · Past poled · Past participle poled · -ing form poling
Verb forms
- Base form
- pole
- He/she/it
- poles
- Past
- poled
- Past participle
- poled
- -ing form
- poling
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This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river.
There was a great cornfield beyond the fence, and not far away she saw a Scarecrow, placed high on a pole to keep the birds from the ripe corn.
On the feet were some old boots with blue tops, such as every man wore in this country, and the figure was raised above the stalks of corn by means of the pole stuck up its back.
Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
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