Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pole into the butt of which a steel point, or pick, is fastened: used by lumbermen.
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Examples
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With the pickpole for a goadstick, down the brimming streams we go;
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887
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After we went down to the shore, several of the men came out on the boom nearest to us, and, striking a single log, pushed it under and outside; then one man with a gallon jug slung to his back, taking a pickpole, pushed himself ashore on the small single log, -- a feat that seemed almost miraculous to me.
A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874
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After we went down to the shore, several of the men came out on the boom nearest to us, and, striking a single log, pushed it under and outside; then one man with a gallon jug slung to his back, taking a pickpole, pushed himself ashore on the small single log, ” a feat that seemed almost miraculous to me.
A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876
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