1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 35^v To arbor begunne, & quick setted about, no poeling nor waddling till set be far out.

1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 48 (margin) in Jewell House New manner of poling of hops.

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A2^v I am as perfect in my Pipe, as Officers in poling, Courtiers in flattery, or wenches in falling.

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxxvii. 243 The annuall charge of the Hop-garden..the dressing the hills, the alleys, the hoing them, the poling, and tying to the poles.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Polling, in gardening, the operation of dispersing the worm-casts all over the walks, with long ash-poles.

1811 H. M. Brackenridge Jrnl. 7 Apr. in Views Louisiana (1814) 205 The water is generally too deep to admit of poling.

1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 169/2 The process of ‘polling’,..carried on by stirring..the copper while in a fluid state with poles of green wood.

1909 Daily Chron. 24 July 8/4 J. H. Secker, amateur punting champion in 1904–5–6–7, regained the title at Shepperton. Some fine poling was seen in the preliminaries.

1964 H. Hodges Artifacts iv. 70 If..the poling is overdone, reducing hydrogen from the wood dissolves in the copper and causes it to be brittle.

1996 Independent 28 Feb. ii. 22/2 The run, a gentle blue piste through the trees, involved plenty of poling to get to the main lifts.

1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 8 Bunnings, Polings, Stemples.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Iij To Forestop with Polings driven down with care.

1826 M. Brunel Jrnl. 10 Aug. in R. R. Sellman Life I. K. Brunel (1971) i. 20 Found the lowest cell of No. 1 left by the workmen without a single poling against the ground.

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Poling, the small boards supporting the earth during the formation of a tunnel.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Polin, a sharp-pointed stake, driven above the head-tree, in lead mining, where the roof is of a soft or loose nature.

1983 J. S. Foster Struct. & Fabric (rev. ed.) I. iii. 255/2 The walings should be placed in the centre of the polings.

2000 A. M. Wood Tunnelling v. 143 Transatlantic practice has favoured the use of steel arches with timber polings as primary support.

1837 Times 8 Aug. 6/6 The water..has penetrated the strata in the upper part of the excavation, and, accumulating in advance of the poling boards, has run into the shield at intervals with great violence.

1944 D. E. Warland Teach Yourself Constr. Details i. 10 With grounds of a loose nature, the poling boards are placed nearer together and horizontal timbers are used to support them.

1996 World Tunnelling (Nexis) 9 s5 Poling boards or boxes and breasting plates are being used as mechanical support.

1875 Times 25 Dec. 8/2 About eight poling boats were moored to the bank, and 50 men of the 10th were put on board.

1900 J. London Son of Wolf 163 Madelaine shook the dust of the Lower River from her moccasins, and with her husband, in a poling-boat, went to live on the Upper River.

1999 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 6 Sept. 6 b Nobody ever put more miles in a poling boat on the Kantishna than I did.

1901 J. G. Millais in Daily News 8 Feb. 6/4 No puntsman should ever venture off poling ground in Scotland when the wind is in the south.

1903 Electr. World & Engineer 21 Nov. 843/2 By this arrangement and a suitable poling of the coils a minimum of mutual induction may be made to take place.

1954 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 25 1166/2 The crystals..were grown in our laboratory and the c axis was made to be perpendicular to the face of the crystals by means of a high-field poling technique.

1965 IEEE Trans. Sonics & Ultrasonics 12 7/1 During the initial poling both 109°/71° and 180° domain switching occurs.

1991 New Scientist 11 May 43/2 Cooling the liquid crystal to below the temperature at which the polymer sets into a glass ‘locks in’ this arrangement. This process is called ‘poling’.

2004 Integrated Ferroelectrics 60 111 Suitable electric poling leads to hysteresis phenomena of the polarization as a function of the electric field.

1956 IRE Trans. Ultrasonic Engin. 4 55 The stress is applied along the axis of the poling field.

1997 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 4846/1 Electro-optic measures can only be made after the poling field is turned off.

2001 Proc. SPIE (Internat. Soc. Optical Engin.) 4603 208 A novel guideline for designing the poling electrode of poled polymer waveguide devices.