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A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm. Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Landor.

that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! Burton.

senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head. One hung a poleax at his saddlebow, And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. Dryden.

Situated below the poles.

ther. In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope. Walpole.

Supervision. Walpole.

To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. [Colloq.] At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.

A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written swape, sweep, swepe, and swipe.]

es. "If he does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him." Walpole.

exactly tallied with the channel. Addison. Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine. Walpole.

A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.

roducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

That which is told; tale; account. [R.] I am at the end of my tell. Walpole.

table lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. Within his tent, large as is a barn. Chaucer.

or the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.

A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth. [Obs.] Chambers.

A tureen. [Obs.] Walpole.

esters to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. Walpole.

A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other.

became master of all Prussia, Livonia, and Pomerania. In its decay it was abolished by Napoleon; but it has been revived as an honorary order.