Word Finder - poled

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To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

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Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

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To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

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He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

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To furnish with poles for support.

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to pole beans or hops

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To convey on poles.

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to pole hay into a barn

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To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

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To strike (the ball) very hard.

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To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

The poled microstructure determines the linear elastic, dielectric and piezoelectric moduli.

Each house consisted of two apartments; the floor was formed of split stems of trees set close together and covered with mats; they were reached from the shore by dug-out canoes poled over the shallow waters, and a notched tree trunk served as a ladder.

It then runs back to the train to repeat the operation, but while it is doing so a second engine similarly equipped has poled away a batch of wagons on the opposite side.

Liquation, if not followed by poling, is carried on as a rule in a reverberatory furnace with an oblong, slightly trough-shaped inclined hearth; if the lead is to be poled it is usually melted down in a cast-iron kettle.