天てん秤びん棒ぼう

noun

carrying pole; shoulder pole; yoke

A pole balanced across the shoulder used to carry loads, often with a container suspended from each end. The term 'milkmaid's yoke' is a Western equivalent but not a direct cultural match.

• 昔むかしの行ぎょう商しょう人にんは天てん秤びん棒ぼうで商しょう品ひんを運はこんだ。

  Old-time peddlers carried their goods with a shoulder pole.

• 天てん秤びん棒ぼうの両りょう端たんに桶おけを下さげて水みずを運はこぶ。

  Carry water by hanging buckets from both ends of a carrying pole.