1755 A. Berthelson tr. E. Pontoppidan 60 They give them each their bird-pole in their hands.
1859 H. C. Folkard lxvi. 348 The fowler, with the aid of the bird-pole, casts himself several fathoms from the rock.
1897 H. A. Macpherson 138 This bird-pole was called the ‘Kia’ or ‘Kia-manu’.