barge pole

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   a long pole used to propel or guide a barge

   “I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole”

   Broaderpole

Questions about barge pole

What does barge pole mean?

barge pole means "a long pole used to propel or guide a barge".

Is barge pole a common word?

barge pole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.