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Definition of Hop pole
1. Noun. A tall pole to support the wires on which the hop plant is trained.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hop Pole
Literary usage of Hop pole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Highways and Byways in Kent by Walter Jerrold (1914)
"Whether " this " is to be the everlasting hop-pole or the canonisation of William
Cobbett the reader is left to determine. A field of well grown hops is a ..."
2. An English Holiday with Car and Camera by James John Hissey (1908)
"CHAPTER XV The glamour of an evening drive—Curious place-names—"Nowhere" —The
old Thames Head—Belated—At the "Hop-Pole"— Oliver Cromwell as an ..."
3. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"... the evidence adduced by Mr. London is pretty conclusive against it ; as he
shows, that at a hop-pole size, it does not last longer than other woods, ..."
4. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"I have seen locusts, at Mr. Knowles's, at Thursley, sufficient for a hop-pole,
for an ordinary hop- pole, with only five years' growth in them, ..."
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