Wiktionary
n. A wire strung between two locations allowing telegraphy between them.
WordNet
n. the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals [syn: telephone wire, telephone line, telegraph wire]
Usage examples of "telegraph line".
But there is a telegraph line between Barbaricum and the Iron Triangle.
It was no longer necessary to gain physical access to a telegraph line behind the enemy's front to eavesdrop upon his communications.
As the relay goes back and forth it acts as a switch for the next piece of the telegraph line.
The boches have cut Paris's only telegraph line to the outside world.
Malwa cavalrymen had been keeping pace with the small Roman flotilla since it steamed out of Rohri, reporting its whereabouts to the fortress by using the telegraph line which the Malwa had stretched from their camp besieging Sukkur all the way to their headquarters in the Punjab.
When she reached the spot where the telegraph line crossed the river and looked down the bank she immediately recognized the remnants of Lothar's camp.
The telegraph line will go with the road and 'island' stations will be established in Zella and Suhl for acquiring freight for the railroad.
Taking advantage of the relatively sheltered waters of the Gulf, on the other hand, they could make it as far as Chabahari -- which was the reason the Roman forces in India had been working so hard to get a telegraph line connecting Chabahari and the Indus.