Definition of Telegraph post

1. Noun. Tall pole supporting telephone wires.

Exact synonyms: Telegraph Pole, Telephone Pole
Generic synonyms: Post

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

telegrammatic
telegramme
telegrammed
telegrammic
telegramming
telegrams
telegraph
telegraph code
telegraph codes
telegraph form
telegraph key
telegraph line
telegraph operator
telegraph plant
telegraph pole
telegraph post
telegraph posts
telegraph wire
telegraphed
telegrapher
telegraphers
telegraphese
telegrapheses
telegraphic
telegraphic signal
telegraphical
telegraphically
telegraphies
telegraphing
telegraphings

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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