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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pole .
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Examples
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Until that day the canoas had been "poled" as a punt is poled, but now they cut oars and paddles
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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The honors, determined chiefly by the marks given at the end of the term, being mainly the reward of a diligence rather stupid than otherwise, as a rule were regarded with great indifference, and, for the most part, fell to the men who "poled" most assiduously, and got the best marks for attention, diligence, and correct recitation of the set tasks.
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864
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Mr. Grady called a halt to their travel well before sundown, and they poled the flatboat to the shore.
Judge deveraux The Scent of Jasmine 2011
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Others come by leaky canoes, poled along by human traffickers known as kayotes.
Tony Phillips: Maple Wars: America Home to Millions of Undocumented Canadians Tony Phillips 2011
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In the fall of 1898, Steve and I poled up the Yukon on the last water, bound for Stewart River.
That Spot 2010
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To spend a day steeped that deeply in "sense of wonder" is rare indeed, and tent-poled a pretty satisfying year of SF consumption.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009
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Others come by leaky canoes, poled along by human traffickers known as kayotes.
Tony Phillips: Maple Wars: America Home to Millions of Undocumented Canadians Tony Phillips 2011
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Russian Evgeny Greshilov poled first in men's singles for an athletic routine set to "Hit the Road, Jack."
Despite Its Bad Reputation, Pole Dancing Appeals to Men in a New Way Alistair MacDonald 2011
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The special envoys of the King of the Belgians, invited to a lunch at the Foreign Office, were carried there in a large, flat-bottomed boat poled by a couple of watermen.
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As an undergraduate at Yale, Rabb divided his time among Locke and Hobbes and Hegel while spending his more reckless hours singing with the Whiffenpoofs and galloping across stage in such roles as Harry the Horse and a perfectly bean-poled Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha.
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