It was a useful but humdrum cargo boat, laboriously poled along shallow, quiet waters, or rowed with lumbering sweeps; or sometimes even sailed, when it shovelled its way through the water with a very safe wind dead aft.
They were of white pine, red or white cedar, or of tulip tree; and their crews poled standing or paddled kneeling, for they had no thwarts.
It was about eighty yards broad and so deep that it could not be poled by the canoe-men, while it runs at a velocity of from three to four knots an hour.
An Arab trader, whom they had met, had sixty wives, who lived together in a double-poled tent, with which he always travelled.
When the towing path changed to the opposite side, the boatmen came on board and poled across to resume their labour as before.
There was little chance of more paddling, the prahus being poled or dragged by rattan, and many smaller kihams were passed.
Our prahus were poled most of the way on a stream which, though rather shallow, ran with a swift current, and at times made my heavily loaded craft take water.
The men poled fast, and ten minutes later the cortege ascended the bank without following a path, and deposited the coffin in a small, old-looking house.
Drawing his rifle from its skin case, he placed it at his feet and poled slowly toward the shore where a bedlam of howls from the dogs signalled his approach.
With the emotions of a man suddenly reprieved from a sentence of death, Marcel poled his canoe out into the current.
As he poled his canoe south through the shoals, he recalled the tales his father had told him of the marshes of Hannah Bay, the greatest breeding ground of the gray goose and black duck in all the wide north.
Wishing to visit his nephew Piquet, he said, and learn how he had weathered the hard winter, in May Lelac and his sons had poled up the Ghost to the camp.
My Indians were splendid boatmen and poled up all but one of the rapids.
The brooks and shallow steadies were now full up from the heavy rains, so we poled where we had to portage coming in.
The two-mile brook was in heavy flood and we poled the canoe up and reached the old camp on Hungry Grove Pond by 11.
A few moments later he had poled a wooden skiff out into the icy current and went down-river in pursuit of the royal barge.
Bram Forest looked after her until the rustling in the rushes stopped, then he poled the skiff once more out into the center of the river and sped swiftly toward the Gates of Ice.
With Ylia he climbed into a skiff and poled it out into the river.
When a war-party returns the canoes are poled to Nailusi.
That night he poled himself over to the mainland, and when she awoke next morning the canoes had sailed for Mbua, from whence her father never returned.
And as soon as all these canoes were built they poled them along the coast, and beached them opposite the land they wished for, and their stuff they carried up into the hills, and the first house they built was for Lutu-na-sombasomba.
During the evening, Stirling reached the camp; and when the Siwash who hadpoled his canoe up the river had drawn it out, they sat down somewhat limply on the shingle, for he had as usual traveled with feverish haste.
Now he backed water, trying not to splash, while Rick poled ahead.
As the boys watched, they poled out a shallow-draft, broad-beamed rowboat about fifteen feet long.
He loaded his boat with supplies, drifted down the Yukon to the mouth of the Klondike, and towed and poled up the Klondike to Gold Bottom.
I yarded out a nice bunch of sections and next summer when my drive was in and I wasn't busy I took a crew of Canada Boys and Mainites and poled them down the coast.
He once threw a peavy handle into the Mississippi at St. Louis and standing on it, poled up to Brainerd, Minnesota.
Occasionally a three-poled instead of a four-poled figure resulted from double fertilization.
The flat boat was quickly poled out to her, and what Swiftwater called their "dunnage" was placed aboard.
Sahwah, ever more skilful in watercraft than Hinpoha, poled the raft neatly across the stream to the opposite shore, paused a moment to see that the feat was properly registered by the judges, and then started back.
They poled the raft back to the landing-place and got on shore.
Long spruce covered points reached out into its waters, which still flowed so swiftly that instead of paddling we poled along the shore.
The stream was deep, and the canoes were poled up with all the outfit in them to the lake above, and on a great bed of huge, packed boulders at the side of the stream we halted for lunch.
We were soon in the canoe, and for nearly half a mile they poled up the swift current.
Then to my surprise the men suddenly changed paddles for poles and turning the bows inshore poled right on up over the mud-bank.
Stalker, accordingly, again went on ahead, and we poled and paddled towards an opening among the rocks which he pointed out.
We poled the raft to shore, and securing it, began at once to reload it with all the goods which had arrived.
Next day they poled against the current and paddled, in bright sunshine, across a lake.
Two Metis were occupied with the canoe behind and as they poled and tracked they sang old songs made by the early French voyageurs.
They poled up the Shadow for some distance, and then followed a small creek, tracking the canoes, which were heavily loaded.
She still floated, however, as she swung into the strong current below, and the men with shouts of excitement rowed and poled her ashore.
If they tracked or poled or rowed up I bet it took them a good deal more than three days.
These he proposed to lead himself in a chariot of his own, four-poled and drawn by eight horses, all the eight protected by chest-plates of bronze.
Two minerspoled their small boats down the Koyukuk River.
Many of the first prospectors to ascend the creek left their outfits and poled even farther in small boats.
They used the tow line a great deal, or poled the boats rather than paddled.
But beyond the Mandans they hoofed it, or poled and paddled and pulled.
If he hadpoled a canoe up the Gallatin, he would not have had to portage over eighteen miles.
It was impossible to make the main middle channel from there, but we poled off without much difficulty and went bumping off down a shallow channel to the extreme right.
Not to run too much risk of being carried down onto the reef in pulling across, I lined and poled a half mile up-stream before pushing off.
Meanwhile John had poled his raft somewhat to the left of the other, to try in his turn to break through the boom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
