Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pole with a prong and hook at one end, used by lumbermen in driving logs on rivers.
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Examples
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A big Chinaman, remarkably evil-looking, with his head swathed in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly pock-marked, planted a pike-pole on the
White and Yellow 2010
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The veteran Zurito resurrected some of his old stuff with the pike-pole, notably the suerte——
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953
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On the end of the pike-pole with which they had been striking him was a hook, which caught in his clothing, and they hauled him up on the bow of the boat.
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They got a pike-pole, and tried to drive him from his hiding-place.
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On the end of the pike-pole with which they were striking him was a hook which caught in his clothing, and they hauled him up on the bow of the boat.
The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave William Wells Brown
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They got a pike-pole, and tried to drive him from his hiding place.
The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave William Wells Brown
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A long pike-pole shot out, bit the end of the timber, and towed it to the boom pile.
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Hollister stirred the snow absently with the pike-pole point.
The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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He had it in for me, too, you know; I batted him over the head with a pike-pole here at the wharf one day this spring, so he plunked me as soon as I hollered at him.
Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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At every abrupt turn, at every fall, where logs jam and pile, must be found the strong and nimble river-drivers, practised at the dangerous work, at making their way across the floating timber, breaking the jams, aiding with ax and pike-pole the free descent of this moving forest.
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