poling
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Definitions ofpoling
- To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
Example: "Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work."
- To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
Example: "He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity."
- To furnish with poles for support.
Example: "to pole beans or hops"
- To convey on poles.
Example: "to pole hay into a barn"
- To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- To strike (the ball) very hard.
- To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
- The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles.
Example: "the poling of a boat"
- The operation of dispersing wormcasts over the walks with poles.
- One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.
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