Peas were brushed and gourds poled.
We traveled one of these in dugout canoes, canoes paddled with machete-hewn OARS, or poled in the shallows with bamboo.
A small flat-bottomed boat with square ends, paddled or poled on shallow waterways.
Every tourist's itinerary includes at least one trip by gondola along the canals which are the streets of Venice. The slim, black boats are skillfully poled along by gondoliers.
He poled his twelfth home run in the sixth inning.
He poled the raft down the river.