Shoulder Pole

Imaginechina/Zumpapress.com A contestant competed in a shoulder-pole event in Qingyang city, China's Gansu province, Monday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

These he incarcerated in fairy cages of plaited straw, threaded the cages into great hornets 'nests that dangled from the two ends of his creaking shoulder-pole, and started toward the city in a perfect storm of insect music. ❋ Mary McNeil Fenollosa (N/A)

But as I studied the patience and physical vitality of my three men, laughing and joking with the light-heartedness of children, with nearly seventy catties dangling from their shoulder-pole, without a word of murmuring, I felt a little ashamed of myself that I, whose duty it was merely to _walk_, should have made such ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

Then, trying to lift it by the silver-shod shoulder-pole, I laughed. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

“He stood on the fireplace, and stretched his hand with the jug, and the water and ashes in it beyond the fireplace, and also the shoulder-pole, which he placed over the fireplace, and on it were two earthen vessels, one on either side?” ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

“He fills first for himself and binds it on the shoulder-pole; and afterward he fills that for purification.” ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)