Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A smooth, vertical pole which reaches from the floor of the engine-room in a fire-engine house, through an opening in the floor above to the ceiling of the room above. The hole in the floor is large enough to permit a man to slide down the pole, thus enabling him to reach the floor below more quickly than by going down the stairs.
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Examples
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The crippled fireman heard the signal at the dead of night, and, only half awake, jumped out of bed, groped about for the sliding-pole, and, getting hold of the bedpost, tried to slide down that.
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