poling

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the practice of using a setting-pole.

Quotations

1811

. . . the poling [was] very bad.

1905

The hardest work is at muddy portages, and in getting through muddy lakes, where the water is low, and the bottom too soft for "poling."

1965

The steep climb up is achieved by a bruising marathon of poling, tracking, portaging, and wading. . . .