poling

Verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

1. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
   • Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
2. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
   • He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
3. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
   • to pole beans or hops
4. (transitive) To convey on poles.
   • to pole hay into a barn
5. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
6. (transitive) To strike (the ball) very hard.
   • Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.2007, Tony Silvia, Baseball Over the Air

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