poling bottom

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a firm bottom to a shallow rir or lake, permitting the use of a setting-pole.

Quotations

1954

There were stretches of sheer cliff, with no poling bottom, here we could make our way up the river only by poling horizontally against the rock.

1956

Where the rocks had fallen, the bottom pitched steeply, and gave treacherous poling bottom.