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a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.

something directed or barbed as in sharp attack.

a ray or beam.

a long, comparatively straight handle serving as an important or balancing part of an implement or device, as of a hammer, ax, golf club, or other implement.

Machinery.��a rotating or oscillating round, straight bar for transmitting motion and torque, usually supported on bearings and carrying gears, wheels, or the like, as a propeller shaft on a ship, or a drive shaft of an engine.

a flagpole.

Architecture.��

1. that part of a column or pier between the base and capital.

2. any distinct, slender, vertical masonry feature engaged in a wall or pier and usually supporting or feigning to support an arch or vault.

a monument in the form of a column, obelisk, or the like.

either of the parallel bars of wood between which the animal drawing a vehicle is hitched.

any well-like passage or vertical enclosed space, as in a building.

Mining.��a vertical or sloping passageway leading to the surface.

Botany.��the trunk of a tree.

Zoology.��the main stem or midrib of a feather.

Also called leaf.��Textiles.��the harness or warp with reference to the pattern of interlacing threads in weave constructions (usually used in combination).

the part of a candelabrum that supports the branches.

Slang: Vulgar.��the penis.

Slang:��harsh, unfair, or treacherous treatment.

to push or propel with a pole.

Slang.��to treat in a harsh, unfair, or treacherous manner.