To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
To flourish, grow, or progress.
To make something boom.
To subject to a sonic boom.
Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
To raise or lower with a crane boom.
The sound of a bass drum beating.
Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
The sound of a cannon firing.
A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
A rapid expansion or increase.
A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
An instance of booming.
One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
A microphone supported on such a pole.
A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
To furnish with poles for support.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
To convey on poles.
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
To strike (the ball) very hard.
To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
A gun.
Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
A type of basic fishing rod.
A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
Pole position.
For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
A penis.
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.