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"ref": "1929, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, Herbert Treadwell Wade, The New International Encyclopaedia - Volume 5, page 496",
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"text": "The polehead is insulated electrically from the pole by a rubber sleeve which also absorbs vibrations from the polehead and thereby reduces noise.",
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"ref": "1989, Arnold Wilson, South West England, page 81",
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"text": "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.",
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},
{
"ref": "1909, Oliver Onions, Draw in Your Stool, page 12",
"text": "She was painted in encaustic purple, with a scarlet forecastle; her stern canopy was of laminated and gilded plates, with a carved lantern hanging from a scroll, and silk curtains to conceal the General's couch; her sails, reefed to the yard, were of purple silk; and at her polehead flew the purple flag -- the signal for action.",
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},
{
"ref": "1980, Glimpses - Volume 20, page 63",
"text": "From a polehead flew a homemade flag cut from red, white and blue cloth. This ragtag banner sported the national colors of Hayes' homeland, USA.",
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},
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"ref": "2012, Oliver Onions, Mushroom Town, page 208",
"text": "They were getting well up with the Town Hall, in what is now Gardd Street, still the flag floated at the polehead, in token that they had got thus far without serious mishap, and then it had to be run down to the half-mast.",
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"text": "Pole pieces should, while controlling the polehead instantly, not be drawn so tight that the horses are jammed against the pole; nor should they dangle loosely about.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1929, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, Herbert Treadwell Wade, The New International Encyclopaedia - Volume 5, page 496",
"text": "For horses averaging between 15 and 16 hands, the length of the .pole is usually 9 feet from the front of the splinter bar to the crosshead or the polehead; for smaller horses, cobs, etc., about 3 inches shorter.",
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},
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},
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1975, L. G. G. Ramsey, The Complete color encyclopedia of antiques, page 274",
"text": "It is stated that the glass makers of Nailsea had poleheads of glass in place of the more usual ones of polished brass.",
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