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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pole \Pole\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poled; p. pr. & vb. n. Poling.]
To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
Poling \Pol"ing\, n. [From Pole a stick.]
The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.
(Gardening) 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles. 2 The operation of dispersing wormcasts over the walks with poles. 3 One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc. vb. (present participle of pole English)
Wikipedia
Poling is a metallurgical method employed in the purification of copper which contains cuprous oxide as an impurity and also in the purification of tin ("Sn") which contains tin oxide (stannic oxide or "SnO") as an impurity. The impure metal, usually in the form of molten blister copper, is placed in an anode furnace for two stages of refining. In the first stage, sulfur and iron are removed by gently blowing air through the molten metal to form iron oxides and sulfur dioxide. The iron oxides are skimmed or poured off the top of the copper and the gaseous sulfur dioxide exits the furnace via the off-gas system. Once the first oxidation stage is complete, the second stage (reduction or poling) begins. This involves using a reducing agent, normally natural gas or diesel (but ammonia, liquid petroleum gas, and naphtha can also be used), to react with the oxygen in the copper oxide to form copper metal. In the past, freshly cut ("green") trees were used as wooden poles. The sap in these poles acted as the reducing agent. The heat of the copper makes the pole emit a gas that reduces the cuprous oxide to copper.
It was the use of these poles gave rise to the term "poling".
Care must be taken to avoid removing too much of the oxygen from the anode copper, as this will cause other impurities to change from their oxide to metallic states and they will remain in solid solution in the copper, reduce its conductivity and change its physical properties.
Poling or Rapping is the practice of hitting a horse on the legs as it goes over a jump, to make it think it hit the fence hard (due to the pain), so the animal will pick his legs up higher the next time. It is usually performed using a long bamboo stick, which is smacked on the cannon bones of the horse.
Poling is illegal under FEI rules, as well as under many national rules. Show jumpers and hunt seat competitors were the most common users of this technique, as a rail down is often a deciding factor in winning a class. However, the practice is rarely seen today.
Poling may refer to:
- Poling, West Sussex, England
- Poling, Indiana, U.S.
- Poling, West Virginia, U.S.
- Poling (piezoelectricity), poling of piezoelectric materials
- Poling (horse), in equestrianism (sometimes mis-spelt "polling"), hitting a horse on the legs to encourage it to clear a jump.
- Poling System, a mathematical rating system used to select college football national championship teams from 1924 to 1984
- Poling (metallurgy), a method for purification of copper in metallurgy.
People named Poling:
- Al Poling aka 911, American wrestler
- Chan Poling – (Chandler Hall Poling) (born 1957), American musician
- Clark V. Poling (1910–1943) Reverend and American war hero
- Daniel A. Poling (1884–1968) American clergyman
- Harold Arthur Poling (1925–2012), U.S. automobile businessman
- Polling (disambiguation)
- Pole (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "poling".
On the other side of the desert we came to a swamp, great sucky grasses tufted into a green scum, we abandoned the Land-Rover for a pirogue, and with one of my companions paddling in the bow and the other poling in the stern and me in the middle set off across the dank whining surface, giant cypresses gnarling and snarling all about us and two-inch-high tree monkeys hanging by one arm like evil fruits therefrom.
A raft some quarter mile away let the brown sail down from the crosstree by ropes and slowly worked its way, gaffing and poling off the other rafts between, till it came alongside the one Arren was on.
In a very short time they were out in midstream, the shrews poling their canoe shaped treetrunks hard, competing in a race between crews.
And after Sulcar custom the women were busy as the men, poling laden craft along the canal, even steadying materials for the builders and wielding axes themselves.
Broke his neck, at last, poling a portable engine down a hill on the Walhalla road.
In the Yukon country, when this comes to pass, the man usually provisions a poling boat, if it is summer, and if winter, harnesses his dogs, and heads for the Southland.
So she came in the dead of night, poling lazily past the gathering of barges at the Hightown Bridge as if she were looking for a mooring-spot, and then going on the Grand Canal under the pilings of the Fishmarket Stairs, where a winding set of steps came down from the triple bridgeways of Merovingen-above.
Poling closer, we could see by laser light that either the opening ended or its narrowing corridor bent out of sight less than three meters in.
The paper shelter, up on bamboo poling, had its back to the wind and was firmly pitoned to the limestone earth.
Ed was poling it through the invisible channels of a mainland tidal marsh.
They had off loaded the dinghy and Ed was poling it through the invisible channels of a mainland tidal marsh.
For nine days she delayed heading for the swamp, satisfying herself with half-sleep in the lagoon, poling herself idly half-submerged from one warm spot to another, but the pain did not diminish.
And admittedly there seemed to be a lot of strange stuff going on, but if he really tried, poling the boat of common sense upstream against the raging current of the evidence, he could pretend it was all, well, weather balloons, or Venus, or mass hallucination.