Boycott involving East European gardening equipment

Usage examples of beanpole.

And the helmet slips forward, is pushed back over the neck, and slips again, while Amsel fishes fence laths and beanpoles, and also heavy, sodden rags out of the mud: the cat comes loose, spins downward, falls to the gulls.

Up the side of the dike Amsel pulls a bundle of roof laths, beanpoles, and wrung-out rags.

One would think on a world of lesser gravity that the denizens would be beanpoles -- the vertical antithesis of the Lusian barrel shape -- but most of the men, women, and children I saw in the busy lanes and towpaths along the river were almost as short and stocky as Lusians.

Once inside the coat, he conjured up towering beanpoles and windmills, he was Balderle and Ashmodai, the cross by the wayside, and the evil number efta.

And as for Mr Grenfell, he was engaged too to a beanpole of a blonde, beautifully made up and dressed, who had come to the ward at Christmas and ignored everyone.

And keeping an eye on the whole bunch of them was Staff Nurse Mary Price, an amiable beanpole of a girl, much prized by Sister Proud foot, and her willing slave as well as friend.

He went down the stairs in two strides of his beanpole legs, and paused by the door.

I knew what he was thinking: if Papa had taken him along when he left Arkansas, the way he should of, Rob Watson would be his schooner captain, not some beanpole cracker.

Like many an Indian or Mexican gal used to sleeping on floor pallets, Kinipai bounced with her haunches, with bare heels braced to either side of his hips as she braced her little palms against his hairy chest to slither up and down his beanpole in a delightful but sort of teasing way.

The beanpole adolescent he remembered had vanished, and his body had been intent upon betraying his awareness of the change.

And uppermost on the pyre, whence moths were still escaping, stood, supported by beanpoles, the public scandal, the bugaboo, Baal tarred and feathered, the Great Cuckoo Bird.

The servant also carried his master's materials: beanpoles and wet rags and whatever the Vistula had washed ashore.

He was seven feet if he was an inch, and skinny as the beanpoles she'd seen in Greenpeace Park.

Fritz qualified for the finals of the hundred-meters, and Beanpole was eliminated from the high jump.

Two things happened in the afternoon: Fritz qualified for the finals of the hundred-meters, and Beanpole was eliminated from the high jump.