WordNet
n. the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals [syn: telephone wire, telephone line, telegraph line]
Usage examples of "telegraph wire".
Two lawyers and a professional general, who had been called in his day to the bar, had sat in a room and removed from an entire people their one inviolable right which had proved, upon test, to be as easily violable as a man transmitting a dozen or so words from a slip of paper to the telegraph wire.
The government at Washington tried to contain the news, but every telegraph wire has been humming the day long.
In 1876, the United States had 214,000 miles of telegraph wire, and 8500 telegraph offices.
It could give no warning of the invasion for the telegraph wire to it had been severed during the night.
The silence that followed the question seemed to hum in the darkened bedroom like a copper telegraph wire struck by a sword.
Army pals had told Longarm some of the more recent hostiles had learned to reload their brass cartridges with home-brew black powder and fashion fresh slugs from hammered telegraph wire.
Flatcars were loaded with prefabricated sections of rail, lumber cars were laden with rails, coal cars were filled with equipment, and there was one car loaded with spools of telegraph wire.
The principal advantage of the heliograph over the electrical telegraph has been that it could be used even in hostile territory, where a telegraph wire had not yet been laid, or was likely to be cut.