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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a long, strong pole used by seamen for levering and thrusting against ice floes, etc.
Quotations
1850
The slackest and thinnest part of the floe, or fragment, was cut into with the axes and chisels until some fortunate blow or prise of the ice-pole rent and loosened it.
1906
This useful instrument [a sealing gaff] also serves as an ice pole, enabling the daring sealer . . . to leap from "pan to pan."