Usage examples (17)

• ‘I am going to stay ever so long this time, and work like an old near-side poler — see if I don’t.
• In each boat, in the darkness, so you could not see, but only hear him, the poler stood in the stern, with his long oar.
• As Diamond advances the slides, you are treated to picturesque scenes of natives in long, low dugout canoes, each one poled, rather than paddled, by a solitary poler who...
• Fernando, our earnest poler, unwedged his lovely boat from the hundreds moored at the dock, flipped back the arco with her name on it to avoid a low-slung bridge, and...