DCHP-3

lodgepole

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1an.

one of the poles forming the framework for a teepee or wigwam.

Quotations

1872
. . . twenty years ago the Sioux lodge-poles were the only signs of habitation.
1963
Nineteen poles hold up this mass of canvas. . . . Cross poles between the lodge poles serve as hanging racks.
1bn. — Obs.

the dwelling itself.

Quotations

1873
The beaver brought many a white man's scalp to the red man's lodge-pole; and many a red man's life went out with the beaver's
2n. — Pacific Coast

one of several posts supporting the framework of an Indian building, often carved and decorated to symbolize identification with a certain clan or family.

Quotations

1885
The decorations of the Haida lodge-poles admit at times of a much more homely interpretation.
3n.

a slim, straight pine, Pinus contorta var. latifolia, common in the Rocky Mountain region, so called because the young trees make good lodgepoles.

Quotations

1936
. . . he passed rapidly through the storm-twisted balsams, the squat spruces hugging the ground, and lodgepoles gnarled and stunted. . . .
1955
These [cones] may remain attached to the tree for several years, a factor which permits of burnt-over areas of Lodgepole woodland being quickly re-forested.