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With more than a month to go, the major-league sluggers have poled 2,094 balls into home-run territory�a figure that, extended to season's end, will set a record.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have poled our staunch canoe    Many a boiling torrent through;    Paddling where the eddies drew,    Athwart the roaring flood we flew.

From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland

With others I have poled the Fraser on those very tempestuous waters that took such toll of life in '62.

From The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)