pole
noun
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc..
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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Now Young may not have been poling just before he arrived, but together with late hours and lack of exercise, he looked as pale and haggard as the hardest poler in college.
From The Adventures of a Freshman by Jesse Lynch Williams