pole-vaultv.
/ˈpəʊlvɔːlt/, /ˈpəʊlvɒlt/, U.S. /ˈpoʊlˌvɔlt/, /ˈpoʊlˌvɑlt/ Chiefly Athletics.
transitive. To perform a pole vault of (a specified height or distance). Also intransitive: to perform a pole vault; to take part in the athletic event of pole-vaulting. Also figurative.
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1900 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 26 June 8/2 Harry Hough pole-vaulted close to ten feet in practice at the Y. M. C. A. athletic field Saturday afternoon.
1941 Utah: Guide to State (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 318 At nightly track meets men hurdled powder boxes, broad jumped on the dumps, and polevaulted with lead pipes.
1978 Times 18 July 2/8 (heading) Ape pole-vaults over park moat.
1990 Marxism Today Mar. 19/1 I don't believe you can pole-vault into socialism.
2004 Daily Mail (Nexis) 25 Aug. 79 Yelena Isinbayeva, who had won gold when she pole-vaulted 4.85m, had the bar raised to 4.91 and soared clear.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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