Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A smooth, straight shoot of green wood, usually a sapling of small diameter, for making hoops for casks.
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Examples
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She reached for a hickory hoop-pole that stood by the door, and the army moved on.
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It is what puts so many men in the pulpit who could serve their Saviour much better planting the mild-eyed potato or harvesting the useful hoop-pole.
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The hoop-pole was a very familiar article of commerce, and of household defense.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916
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She reached for a hickory hoop-pole [5] that stood by the door, and the army moved on.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916
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She reached for a hickory hoop-pole [5] that stood by the door, and the army moved on.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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She reached for a hickory hoop-pole that stood by the door, and the army moved on.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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She reached for a hickory hoop-pole that stood by the door, and the army moved on.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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The hoop-pole was a very familiar article of commerce, and of household defense.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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She was a tight little ship of about four hundred tons, had hoop-pole bulwarks, as I afterwards learned, with nettings for hammocks and old junk, principally the latter; and showed ten nine-pounders, carriage-guns, in her batteries.
Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Our boasted Republican government, whose shibboleth has ever been the equality of all men -- that the harvester of the lowly hoop-pole stands on a parity with a prince swinging a gilded scepter and robbing a poverty-stricken people -- considered that its paid representatives in Russia would be unequal to the task of spilling sufficient slobber over the chief representative of "divine right," the great arch-enemy of human liberty, and sent special envoys to assist at the ceremony.
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