Usually means: A spear for hunting whales.
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▸ noun:  (US) A piece of wood or sheet metal fitted into a ditch to dam up the water so as to overflow and irrigate a field.

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ditch, tamper, pane, patten, fosse, dugout, trogue, trough, sapping, sunk fence, more...

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