pole
verb/pəʊl/
/pəʊl/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pole | /pəʊl/ /pəʊl/ |
| he / she / it poles | /pəʊlz/ /pəʊlz/ |
| past simple poled | /pəʊld/ /pəʊld/ |
| past participle poled | /pəʊld/ /pəʊld/ |
| -ing form poling | /ˈpəʊlɪŋ/ /ˈpəʊlɪŋ/ |
- pole (something) + adv.prep. to move a boat by pushing on the bottom of a river, etc. with a pole
- He hired a punt and poled upstream.
Word Originverb late Old English pāl (in early use without reference to thickness or length), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch paal and German Pfahl, based on Latin palus ‘stake’.
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