Carrying pole

[Steve Kl.]

Wouldn't that be a *yoke* ?

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Does anyone know of a special word or term in English for the kind of
> pole that one would put over one's shoulder to carry two buckets of
> water (one on each end of the pole)?
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