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piked pole
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See pike-pole 1945 quote.
See: pike-pole
Quotations
1849
After saluting the master lumberer, who was superintending his sturdy people at work among the logs, rafting them, with their piked poles, or gaffs, and handspikes, I asked him what quantity of timber . . . had gone down this spring. . . .