To maul viciously.
1838. So hot waxed the patriotism of the belligerents, that many were trampled under foot, some gouged, others horribly snake-poled and not a few knocked clear into a cocked hat.—B. Drake, ‘Tales and Sketches,’ p. 92 (Cincinnati). (Italics in the original.)
1850. What would your people do with such an orator? They would snake-poll him out of the district, and set the dogs on him.—Mr. Campbell of Ohio, House of Repr., Feb. 19: Congressional Globe, p. 182, App.
