Quick links

needle bar

North

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

a kind of long ice-pick for cutting water holes in ice.

See: ice-chisel

Quotations

1956

The edges of the hole must be free of rough projections which would catch in the net, and many fishermen use an "ice chisel"--which is much like the needle bar except that the sharpened end is chisel-like--to finish the hole, but others use only the needle bar.

1960

I dug down through three feet of ice with a needle bar. . . .