shoulder-pole

Imaginechina/Zumpapress.com A contestant competed in a shoulder-pole event in Qingyang city, China's Gansu province, Monday.

Asia in Pictures 2011

These he incarcerated in fairy cages of plaited straw, threaded the cages into great hornets 'nests that dangled from the two ends of his creaking shoulder-pole, and started toward the city in a perfect storm of insect music.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

But as I studied the patience and physical vitality of my three men, laughing and joking with the light-heartedness of children, with nearly seventy catties dangling from their shoulder-pole, without a word of murmuring, I felt a little ashamed of myself that I, whose duty it was merely to _walk_, should have made such

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

Then, trying to lift it by the silver-shod shoulder-pole, I laughed.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

Then, trying to lift it by the silver-shod shoulder-pole, I laughed.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

“He stood on the fireplace, and stretched his hand with the jug, and the water and ashes in it beyond the fireplace, and also the shoulder-pole, which he placed over the fireplace, and on it were two earthen vessels, one on either side?”

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

“He fills first for himself and binds it on the shoulder-pole; and afterward he fills that for purification.”

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880