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n.
See pike-pole 1945 quote. [See picture at pike-pole.]
See: pike-pole
Quotations
1960
These Nile men were rather the shanty-boy variety of Canadian riverman, just as much at home on certain Canadian rivers as Jean Baptiste had ever been but more skilled with the raft, the pike and the peavey than with the paddle and packsack.