Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) A utility pole that supports telephone lines
WordNet
n. tall pole supporting telephone wires [syn: telegraph pole, telegraph post]
Usage examples of "telephone pole".
A wrecking bee instead of a quilting bee, Larry thought, and his eye caught one of the posters headed MASS MEETING, this one nailed to a telephone pole.
Cossack, a pair of pliers, up that telephone pole and wait till I give you the word.
At other times, no other solution is possible except climbing a telephone pole and hard-wiring an eavesdropping device.
The creature was moving from telephone pole to telephone pole, repeating its old tricks, Remo saw.
He veers off the road, bumps over the weedy shoulder, and heads toward a looming telephone pole.
I keep wonderin how it'd feel to get hung up to dry on some telephone pole out in the desert.
Jens had chained his bicycle to a telephone pole outside the doctor's office.
There was no telephone pole out there to push against the door, not even any trees that could be angled to crash down over the decking.
I walked quickly to the back door and saw him standing in the sunlight, in the middle of the lawn, staring up at the telephone pole with his hands on his hips.