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Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Pole-hook

The hook at the top side of a coach pole on which the main bar is hung.

Pole-pieces.-Wide leather double straps which in broughams, victorias, and some other descriptions of carriages are used instead of pole-chains. They run from the pole-head through a kidneylink in the harness. It is by means of the polechains or pole-pieces that horses in double harness are enabled to "hold" a carriage when descending a hill, and to stop it. Poling up. Adjusting to the proper length the pole-chain or pole-piece.

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