Pole

Pole: verb. To pole is to slowly and surreptitiously occupy an area by moving up poles that mark the end of one's property and the beginning of another's. This occurrence was obviously begun in Poland, where neighbours would compete against each other in this odd sport, eventually taking over each other's houses by sticking poles inside and moving them along the floor without anyone noticing. Some historians suspect that the reason why Poland is so oddly giant for a country of less than forty million is exactly large-scale poling, in which territory is not only expanded by moving poles and changing signs, but also by building settlements on wheels that are slowly moved in the general direction of expansion. According to the Polish government, the practice was outlawed in 1989, but some suspect that it is still happening, especially considering the strangely incongruous amount of Polish people on the British isles.