DCHP-3

piked pole

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

See pike-pole 1945 quote.

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. . . .