pething-pole

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

a harpoon-like weapon used forpething (pithing) cattle; that is, killing them by piercing thespinal cord (pith, or provincial peth).

1886. P. Clarke, `New Chum in Australia,' p. 184 (`Century'):

«So up jumps Tom on the bar overhead with a long pething-pole,like an abnormally long and heavy alpenstock, in his hand; heselects the beast to be killed, stands over it in breathless .. . silence, adjusts his point over the centre of the vertebra,and with one plunge sends the cruel point with unerring aiminto the spinal cord.»

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