telegraph pole
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈtɛlɪˌɡræf poʊl/
:
poste telegráfico
- Other jobs for tax laborers included erecting telegraph poles along the roads between Protectorate government stations and maintaining Protectorate buildings and grounds in Entebbe.
Examples
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The boy climbed the telegraph pole to help fix the broken wires for the neighborhood.
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At four o'clock, he was slumped on a green plush seat on a northbound local of the Chicago & Northwestern, staring out the window at telegraph poles and small suburban farms shuttling by.
Fiction book (1993) -
One day, together with other workers, he was engaged in putting up a telegraph pole.
Academic text (1999) -
For the space of four telegraph poles, the wire had been stripped completely and carried away.
Fiction book (1992) -
The boy reaches the top of the telegraph pole and cuts the wire.
Fiction book (2002) -
Joe slumped and grabbed hold of a telegraph pole to keep from falling to the ground.
Fiction book (1998) -
Fields, church steeples, occasional cyclists, telegraph poles, barns... seemed then to flash by.
Fiction book (1993) -
Last week I was driving to work through a remote part of mid-Wales and was marveling at the sheer number of telegraph poles installed to carry power and telecoms to fairly remote farmsteads, and the time and labor it takes to install and maintain them.
Blog text (23) -
The workers skillfully installed a new telegraph pole at the edge of the field.
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During the storm, several telegraph poles were knocked down, disrupting communications.
Synonyms
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1.0
A long pole set upright in the ground to support or mark
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2.0
A tall wooden or concrete post that holds telephone wires above the ground
A tall pole that holds telephone or telegraph wires
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'telegraph' (wiring/communications network) with 'pole' (a tall support): a pole that supports telegraph/telephone wires. This is a transparent noun–noun compound following a common compositional pattern found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Telegraph pole comes from the early days when a telegraph used wires stretched on tall poles to send messages. The pole's job was to hold the wires, so the name means 'a tall pole that supports telegraph or telephone wires'.