pike-pole
/ˈpʌɪkpəʊl/North American
noun
1A pole with a point or spike at the end, especially one with a hook and spike used by loggers for driving and guiding floating logs.
2In firefighting: a long pole with a fire-hook at one end.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Robert Rogers (1731–1795), frontiersman and army officer. From pike + pole.
- be set in concrete
- besetting sin
- be shitting bricks
- beshrew
- be sick
- beside
- beside oneself
- beside (or off) the point
- besides
- beside the point
- besiege
- besiegement
- besieger
- be simplicity itself
- be sitting pretty
- be skin and bone
- besmear
- besmirch
- be snowed under
- be so good as (or be good enough) to do something
- besom
- be someone's doing
- be someone's (or the) man
- be sorry to say
- besotted