Shearpole

Quick meaning: Shearpole is a noun meaning A horizontal crosspiece.

Meaning

A horizontal crosspiece.

Example Sentences

The best example of these devices that I know of in Aberdeen is at the shearpoles, where the worm and wheel are used for the hoisting motion, the screw and nut for the derricking.

The shearpole tradition is so strong that even in some national forests where regulations specifically prohibit cutting live trees, the rangers look the other way when they see freshly chopped shear poles supporting a tent.

He then excavated under the upper edge as much as possible, so that the escaping air passed through and loosened up the material on that side, wedged up and strained the pipe as before, and, with a battering-ram made of a 12-in. square oak timber, 12 ft. long, and in the middle suspended from shearpoles, struck successive blows against the top of the pile; while it was desceending; it was thus quickly brought into position.

Word Forms

• shearpoles
• shear pole
• shear-pole

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