hop-pole

His buckler was a potlid, his lance a hop-pole shod with iron, and a basket-hilt broadsword, like that of Hudibras, depended by a broad buff belt, that girded his middle.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

And then he challenged the biggest of them to a stand-up fight, and a ring was made and they fought; and certainly it was a strange thing to see Saunders, with his bare arms looking no thicker than a hop-pole, tackling that great fellow, whose right arm was nearly as thick as Saunders's body.

Amos Huntingdon T.P. Wilson

She's as lank as a hop-pole and as yellow as a guinea.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

Dumble, the battery captain, looking through the dial-sight of his No. 1 gun, apparently trying to discover whether a black-and-white signalling-pole, planted fifty yards in front of the gun, was in line with a piece of hop-pole fifty yards farther on.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

MY DEAR MR. BEVERLEY, -- The country down here, though delightfully Arcadian and quite idyllic (hayricks are so romantic, and I always adored cows -- in pictures), is dreadfully quiet, and I freely confess that I generally prefer a man to a hop-pole (though I do wear a wig), and the voice of a man to the babble of brooks, or the trill of

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

And others of you, if you had a rabbit's scut at the end of a hop-pole and the gray mud from a rain puddle, would produce work worth considering.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

At Bexley, as he hurried past, he caught dimly a glimpse of an old nurse whom he remembered trying to break into bits with a hop-pole he could barely lift; and, most singular thing, on the Sidcup platform, a group of noisy schoolboys, with smudged faces and ridiculously small caps stuck on the back of their heads, had scrambled viciously to get into his compartment.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

On the other hand, you have at your feet a man of outstanding ability and high character, and who has attained an extraordinary position -- far better than any aristocratic lath or hop-pole; and you can render him the most material help by your abilities and knowledge of the world.

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

As Mrs. Wadleigh approached the door, she gave a rapid glance at the hop-pole in the garden, and wondered if its vine had stood the winter well.

Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902

Carmichael returned the compliment he swung his hop-pole as the old crusaders did their broadswords.

The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901