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   Pole

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   noun

   • 1. a long, slender, rounded piece of wood or metal, typically used with one end placed in the ground as a support for something: "a tent pole"
   • ▪ a long, slender, flexible rod of wood or fibreglass used by a competitor in pole-vaulting.
   • ▪ a young tree with a straight slender trunk and no lower branches: "new poles should be protected from grazing livestock"
   • ▪ short for ski pole
   • ▪ a wooden shaft fitted to the front of a cart or carriage drawn by animals and attached to their yokes or collars.
   • ▪ a simple fishing rod: "they tell you on the tin that their tuna is entirely caught with pole and line"
   • 2. a linear or square rod. historical British

   verb

   • 1. propel (a boat) by pushing a pole against the bottom of a river, canal, or lake: "the boatman appeared, poling a small gondola"

   Word Origin late Old Englishpāl (in early use without reference to thickness or length), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch paal and German Pfahl, based on Latin palus ‘stake’.

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   What is a telegraph pole used for?

   • A pole is a long thin piece of wood or metal, used especially for supporting things. The truck crashed into a telegraph pole. He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter. The earth's poles are the two opposite ends of its axis, its most northern and southern points.

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   What does Poling a pole mean?

   • 1. a. To propel with a pole: boatmen poling barges up a placid river. b. To propel (oneself) or make (one's way) by the use of ski poles: "We ski through the glades on corn snow, then pole our way over a long one-hour runout to a road" (Frederick Selby). 2. To support (plants) with a pole. 3. To strike, poke, or stir with a pole.

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   What does pole mean?

   • : a person born or living in Poland Old English pāl "stake, pole" Middle English pool "axis of the earth," from Latin polus (same meaning), from Greek polos "pivot, pole" : either of two morphologically or physiologically differentiated areas at opposite ends of an axis in an organism, organ, or cell see animal pole, vegetal pole

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   What is a pole used for?

   • A pole is a rounded stick or rod, usually made of wood, plastic, or metal. You need a pole for hanging a flag, catching fish, or setting up a tent. There are many kinds of poles, from the poles skiers use to balance and push themselves forward to the long, flexible pole a pole vaulter uses to help her jump over a high bar.

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