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telegraph pole
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A greater-spotted woodpecker zooms in on a telegraph pole on the lane.
▪ From the feel of it she thought it could be a telegraph pole.
▪ She felt rigid like a telegraph pole, communicating perfectly, functioning flawlessly, but with no heart, no soul.
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telegraph pole

n. A telegraph post

WordNet
telegraph pole

n. tall pole supporting telephone wires [syn: telephone pole, telegraph post]

Usage examples of "telegraph pole".

Every telegraph pole had men clinging to it, eager to glimpse the incarnation of Yankee evil, Old Abe—.

Every telegraph pole had men clinging to it, eager to glimpse the incarnation of Yankee evil, Old Abe -- or Old Nick -- himself.

On the crest of a distant hill, a single telegraph pole stood slanted against the sky, like a cross over a vast grave.

One of the big rollers banged a telegraph pole, hard enough to make it wobble.

The moon was high, washing the surrounding grasslands in Pale silver as the prisoner sat his mount, watching Longarm's dark outline climb the last few feet to the Crossbar of the telegraph pole beside the tracks.

Sometimes when the morning sun was halfway up and Jenny cast her shadow, long and as wide as a telegraph pole, behind her, Tulla, prolonging Jenny's shadow with her shadow, stepped pace for pace on Jenny's shadow head.

It landed on a telegraph pole, but flew up at once when the pole shifted under its weight.

When he headed for the docks the next morning, every other telegraph pole and fence post was adorned with a full-color poster of Teddy Roosevelt leading a detachment of U.

This was why the assistant engineer had climbed up the telegraph pole: the inspection handcar must be on its way.

I took a look at the target through the telescope, steadying that too on the window ledge, and what leapt to my eye was a bright, clear, slightly oblique close-up of a flat shallow box, fixed high up and to one side on the telegraph pole: grey, basically rectangular, fringed with wires leading off to all the nearby houses.

He was also using copper telegraph wire, probably obtained by blatantly scaling a telegraph pole in some lonely place.

Then, just as the Lancaster slowed toward a stop, its right wing clipped a telegraph pole.

The other topped six feet but looked as if he'd disappear if he stood behind a telegraph pole.

There was a steel rod of a bowsprit ramming out in front, the size of a telegraph pole.