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
As we poled over to retrieve it, Pastrana pointed out a good-size fish by the mangroves to the left.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 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
Steamboats could travel faster and more cheaply than sailing vessels or keelboats, which floated downriver and had to be poled or towed upriver on the return voyage.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Deepwater fishing boats and river runners came and went, ferrymen poled back and forth across the Blackwater Rush, trading galleys unloaded goods from Braavos and Pentos and Lys.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
