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Pole vault   /poʊl vɔlt/   Listen
Pole vault

noun
1.
A competition that involves jumping over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole.  Synonyms: pole jump, pole jumping, pole vaulting.





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... locked horns was in my last year at high school. Monohan was a star athlete. I beat him in a pole vault. That irked him so that he sulked and sneered, and generally made himself so insulting that I slapped him. We fought, and I whipped him. I had a temper that I hadn't learned to keep in hand those days, and I nearly killed him. I had nothing but contempt for him, anyway, because even ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair


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