单词 | pike-pole |
释义 | pike-polen. North American. 1. A pole with a point or spike at the end, esp. one with a hook and spike used by loggers for driving and guiding floating logs.In quot. 1765 perhaps: a pike (pike n.4). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > lumberer's hook pike-pole1765 picaroon1837 pickpole1837 fid-hook1851 driving-pike1877 swamp-hook1877 peavey1878 Samson1905 1765 R. Rogers Conc. Acct. N. Amer. 226 Near the center [of a tomahawk]..another point projects forward of considerable length, which serves to thrust with like a spear, or pike pole. 1830 Palladium (Toronto) 29 Aug. 244/1 How delightful to rise early in the foggy morning and devote the livelong day to punching alligator-gars in the belly with a pike-pole! 1850 N. Kingsley Diary (1914) 139 The weeds are put down with a pike pole and the pressure of the water keeps them to their place. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 206 I..was at once put to work pushing logs down a long channel with a pike pole. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Jan. 1/3 Mattatall sighted it [sc. a bag] and hauled it up with a pike pole. 1945 D. D. Calvin Saga of St. Lawrence 68 Men..sorted out with their long pike-poles (which were like twenty-foot boat-hooks with a sharp point and hook) the longer, thinner pieces. 1981 R. H. Beatie Saddles ix. 48/2 After the Spaniards in America discarded pike poles and hocking irons in handling cattle, they revived the use of the lariat. 1996 L. Scanlan Heading Home i. 6 River drivers kept the log booms moving, using twelve-foot pike poles and dynamite to break up jams. 2. In firefighting: a long pole with a fire-hook at one end. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > hook for pulling down buildings fire hook1395 fire crook1656 fire pole1736 fire-crome1787 pike-pole1847 1847 D. P. Thompson Locke Amsden xi. 217 Calling on the firemen to turn their engine full upon himself, he mounted to the top of the carriage with his pike-pole. 1949 Chicago Daily News 17 Sept. 1/7 Firemen worked with pike pole and shovel in the wreckage. 1969 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lii. 34 Pike pole, a rake-like device used to pull plaster loose or to clear an area. ‘Clear it out with the pike pole.’ 1990 Reader's Digest Aug. 62/1 One..probed first with his arm then, finding nothing, with a pike pole, a fibreglass shaft with a blunt steel hook on its end. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1765 |
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