3. To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
4. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
POLE
Pole, n. Etym: [L. polus, Gr. pôle.]
1. Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
2. (Spherics)
Defn: A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
3. (Physics)
Defn: One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
4. The firmament; the sky. [Poetic] Shoots against the dusky pole. Milton.
5. (Geom.)