WordNet
power pylon
n. a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines; "power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists" [syn: pylon]
Usage examples of "power pylon".
He had lain, apparently since late the previous night, in the grass beneath the power pylon from which he was assumed at first to have fallen.
Dimi runs himself into a power pylon at high speed, falls out of a hotel window, something like that.
Jessop had bought a Piper three weeks ago and took one of his girl-friends for a joyride and wrapped the thing round a power pylon and got away with it, except that she was suing him for five hundred thousand pounds for a new face before she could model again.