half-poles

Updated: May 14, 2025

Then, too, full-length spare poles are very bothersome and inconvenient to carry. With a litter equipped in this fashion one man can carry a spare pole, and they are much easier and quicker to put in if a pole snaps." "I should think," Hirnio remarked, "that the half-poles would pull out of the sockets." "Not a bit," said Tanno, "they clamp in at the end, this way. See?

Edward Lucas White - Andivius Hedulio : Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire