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teepee pole
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:teepee tent pole
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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one of the poles used in making the framework of a teepee.
See: teepee
Quotations
1897
But in this we were disappointed, and, instead of Indians, found only old forsaken "tepee" poles and blackened fire-places.
1957
Not a person had intruded during the interval, not even Indians, and everything was unchanged, even to the teepee poles that still rested against the spruce trees as we had left them.
1965
Three poles about three inches in diameter at the butt and, say, eight feet long are set up like teepee-tent poles to form a tripod, securely tied together at the apex.