Definition of "poled" [poled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of pole. (verb)

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• "Until that day the canoas had been "poled" as a punt is poled, but now they cut oars and paddles"
• "The honors, determined chiefly by the marks given at the end of the term, being mainly the reward of a diligence rather stupid than otherwise, as a rule were regarded with great indifference, and, for the most part, fell to the men who "poled" most assiduously, and got the best marks for attention, diligence, and correct recitation of the set tasks."
• "The special envoys of the King of the Belgians, invited to a lunch at the Foreign Office, were carried there in a large, flat-bottomed boat poled by a couple of watermen."