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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In artillery, a short rod or bar fastened under the pole of a guncarriage. to support it when the horses are unhitched.
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There he found a place where, with his back to a pole-prop right at this curve in the trolley system, the shadow enfolded him completely.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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