Poling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• propel (a boat) by pushing a pole against the bottom of a river, canal, or lake
NOUN:
• poles collectively
• a native or inhabitant of Poland, or a person of Polish descent.
• The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.
• The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with poles.
• One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to propel with a pole (a long, thin piece of wood or metal)
• present participle of pole

Words related to POLING

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Words that contain POLING

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How to use POLING in a sentence

• Thus I thought when I saw the forms of the explorers in their birch, poling up the rapids before us, far off against the forest.
• The lion went manfully to work, and by dint of hard poling, shoved us off, and came to anchor in deep water.
• He saw the man in the boat poling uncertainly in the tide not six feet beyond him.
• Of course Satarah was defeated, and was soon to be seen sulkily poling away in the stern-sheets, while his son-in-law still more sulkily paddled in the bow.
• With these they hooked into the branches and dragged themselves up along the bank, in addition to poling where the depth permitted it.
• A cow moose and her calf sprang up the bank with a splash, frightened by the poling figure in the stern.
• Here were hiding-places in plenty, and I had no difficulty in poling my boat up a ragged cleft where none could see it save from the entrance.
• Then they were permitted to drift, with some poling to keep them in the proper direction.
• When the boat had ascended the tributary for perhaps an eighth of a mile it was deemed safe to lessen the work of poling.
• Marlowe insisted upon taking his turn in poling, but since there were four vigorous men without him, they would not consent.
• The men kept the boat in shallow water, poling and rowing by turns.
• The rock was so soft that it was frequently necessary to drive poling boards ahead as the face was mined out with picks and shovels.
• Then poling and pulling we crept up the rapid into smooth water.
• But in rowing, poling, and tracking we could beat the river.
• Evidently the deck hands were working to get the Hannah off by poling.
• The river was fallen very low, so that they were rowing or poling over a series of pools joined by shallow rapids.
• For the most part the poling was better than rowing, for the stream was too full of rocks to admit the free use of oars.
• They were poling their craft around in all directions spearing fish.
• At Poling, on a tributary of the Arun southwards, is a decoy for wild fowl.
• Even barges were proving failures and passing into disuse, as the cost of poling them upstream was greater than any profit to be reaped from the voyage.

Similar words containing POL without suffix ing

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