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Definition of Telegraph post
1. Noun. Tall pole supporting telephone wires.
Definition of Telegraph post
1. Noun. A pole, usually wooden, that carries telephone lines above a street. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telegraph Post
Literary usage of Telegraph post
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Ephraim Williams, Dudley Atkins Tyng, Octavius Pickering, Theron Metcalf, Luther Stearns Cushing, Horace Gray, Charles Allen, Albert Gallatin Browne (1883)
"... the telegraph post, and that the distance between this post and a similar one
on the opposite side of the travelled part of the way was twenty six feet. ..."
2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1864)
"But the judge refused so to instruct the jury ; and instructed them that "if they
were satisfied that the telegraph post complained of was an obstruction, ..."
3. The Law Times (1879)
"The United Kingdom Telegraph Company (31 LJ 166, MC), where the erection of a
telegraph post on the aide of a highway was held to be an indictable nuisance, ..."
4. The Mechanics' Magazine (1857)
"The pistols are supposed to be fired at the exact instant of time that the
individual on the train is opposite a telegraph post, and the bullets are ..."
5. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1908)
"... road-line thirty-two paces west of telegraph post No. 24. There are here seen
two marl-bands, but they look more than i \ ft. apart, as at Watcombe Bay. ..."
6. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"The shank is firmly socketed in a glass ir vulcanite socket, which screws into
the telegraph- post. In b the inverted cup has a shank by which it is secured ..."
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