The instrument, usually six to eight feet long, consists of an upright wooden pole topped with a conical brass ornament and having crescent shaped crosspieces, also of brass.

Ware took advantage of their preoccupation with feeding to slay them both, stabbing them with long poles topped with spines, up through their mouths.

Two horses were tethered to a pole topped by a smoky, guttering cresset.

It was a wooden pole topped by a radar, and it looked about five hundred feet high.

A sacred pole topped with a human scalp was returned to the Omaha Indians today after being in a Massachusetts museum for 101 years.

The image of Liberty holding a pole topped by a Phrygian cap appears on many mid- and late-19th-century U.S. silver coins.

Vineyards are dotted with concrete poles topped by sharp blades to spear possible paratroopers.

Behind him, in similar postures, were his two 'red-stripes', both now holding slim, twelve-foot long poles topped with pennants bearing the symbol of their house.

It consisted of a pole topped by either an open palm of a human hand or by a spear-head.