ranging pole

ranging rod

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noun

a pole for marking positions in surveyingAlso called: range pole, range rod

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Words nearby ranging pole

range paralysis, range pole, ranger, range table, rangi, ranging pole, rangiora, rangoli, Rangoon, rangpur, rangy

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How to use ranging pole in a sentence

Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.
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Many of the nearly two dozen charges carry sentences ranging up to life in prison.
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The characters you play on the show are extremely diverse—ranging from a cocaine-rattled rich boy to an ornery Jewish grandpa.
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He then traipsed around the district dispensing “investments” ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 to local companies.
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It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
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Knowing by experience that he would soon be up to it, he used his pole with all his might, hoping to steer clear of it.
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Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.
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Then, having shot nothing that day, he turned towards the Pole with a feeling of disappointment.
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Truly it was a most enjoyable season and experience, but there is no joy without its alley here below—not even at the North Pole!
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