polehead

The sketch is from a photograph, and shows one of these old type of vessels before a light wind, with a small square topsail set upon the polehead of her single lofty spar.

They are not seen again until the camping-ground for the night is reached, when the four tents will be found pitched ready for us, with English and American flags flying at their poleheads.

The second type of collector is of the wood-pole, lubricated slider variety, having a box-type pole, poleheads that are individually flexible, and roller-bearing base provided with a passage for the cables and a stop to limit rotation.

The best pole-chains are those one end of which is fastened to a langet - frequently called a bridle - which slips over the end of the pole-hook, and fits into its place at the end of the polehead, the other end of the pole-chain having a long hook.

I think that the construction of a polehead to take care of the overhead ground wire is open to criticism.

Unfortunately the Trent polehead cannot be traced, but the rules of the “Trent and Compton Friendly Society', founded in 1819, are in the County Record Office in Taunton.

As “ the porwigle or tadpole” or “ loggerhead” or “polehead” is popularly supposed to be all head and tail, and as the latter seems to wiggle more than the former, a hint as to the precise meaning of the compounds “polwygle” and "polliwog" would have been welcome.