Telegraph Pole (Noun)
Meaning
Tall pole supporting telephone wires.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The telegraph pole stood tall and straight, supporting a tangled web of telephone wires that crisscrossed the countryside.
- Along the rural road, a series of telegraph poles marched in a line, each one spaced about 100 feet apart.
- As the storm approached, the telegraph pole swayed ominously in the wind, threatening to snap and bring down the power lines.
- The old telegraph pole had been standing for decades, its wooden surface weathered to a soft gray that blended in with the surrounding landscape.
- In the distance, a lone telegraph pole rose above the fields, its crossbeam supporting a cluster of telephone wires that hummed with electricity.