setting-polen.
Chiefly North American.
A pole, esp. one used by wild-fowlers for propelling a boat or punt on mud-banks, securing wounded birds, etc.
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1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg II. xiii. 140 The barques..run often a-ground..and the people were obliged to..heave them off..with levers and setting poles.
1765 Universal Mag. 37 370/1 When they go against a current, they use setting-poles.
1824 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 3) 345 Let one go out for the birds, taking with him the setting pole.
a1844 F. Baily Jrnl. Tour N. Amer. (1856) 270 The longest setting poles we had would not reach the bottom.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. i. ix. §2. 121 The shooter proceeds, generally by night, with an assistant in the punt, using the oars, paddle or setting-pole.
1931 G. L. Nute Voyageur 40 Up to this point they had used ‘setting poles’ as well as paddles whenever the current was too swift for the ordinary method of propelling the canoe.
1959 Moosehead Gaz. (Dexter, Maine) Feb. 18/3 Junior eased the canoe down through the rocky rips with a setting pole.
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