pole
noun
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc..
poled
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past participleof pole.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pole.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
polenouna long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc..
Example Sentences
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The crystals used in the experiments were carefully grown and then exposed to the electric field, or "poled," by Raffi Sahul at Amphenol Corporation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Roman trumpet with the rattle of the sistrum, chased the Liburnian prow with a poled barge, spread her foul mosquito nets over the Tarpeian Rock, and gave judgements among Marius’ weapons and statues.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Doing the heavy lifting, however, were crew members — usually enslaved people, freedmen or poor White people — extraordinary watermen who poled their flotillas to market in Richmond.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022
“We always had a southern swamp opening, lots of hanging Spanish moss ... one number, she entered on a raft poled by one of the dancers across a dry ice stage.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2018
Peter saw the wires; he poled over them.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
