Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pole which connects the front and back parts of the gear of a wagon. See cut under
hounds .
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The perch or coupling-pole should be shifting or movable, as, in the event of the loss of a wheel, an axle, or other accident rendering it necessary to abandon the wagon, a temporary cart may be constructed out of the remaining portion.
The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Randolph Barnes Marcy 1849
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A man is very much like a wagon, anyhow, for his shoulders and hips are the axle-trees and his arms and legs are the wheels and the wagon-body is his body and the coupling-pole is his spine and the hounds are his kidneys -- his reins, as the Scriptures call 'em -- and they brace up everything and hold up the tongue and the coupling-pole, and if the hounds are weak and rickety the hind wheels don't track with the fore wheels, and the whole concern moves along with a hitch and a jerk and a double wabble.
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