telegraph post

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Etymology[edit]

From their original purpose of carrying telegraph lines, first used around 1843 by William Fothergill Cooke.

Noun[edit]

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telegraph post (plural telegraph posts)

  1. A pole, usually wooden, that carries telephone lines above a street.
    • 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Aircraft on rail tracks”, in Trains Illustrated, page 650:
      Here the protection consists of a 50lb per mile cadmium copper trip-wire mounted on short telegraph posts on both sides of the line, 4ft above rail level.

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