telephone pole

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Related topics: Telephone, telegraph

ˈtelephone ˌpole noun [countable]  American EnglishTCT a tall wooden pole for supporting telephone wires 电话线杆 SYN British English telegraph pole

Examples from the Corpus

telephone pole• He showed me how to draw a telephone pole.• A single antelope stood in the line of shadow of a telephone pole.

ˈtelephone ˌpole nounChineseSyllable  

for supporting wires pole tall telephone Corpus wooden a

telephone pole
ˈtelephone ˌpole noun [countable]
American English a tall wooden pole for supporting telephone wires
   SYN  telegraph pole British English

telephone poleBrE /ˈtelɪfəʊn pəʊl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtelɪfoʊn poʊl/ 🔊 (NAmE) (BrE ˈtelegraph pole) nouna tall wooden pole used for carrying telephone or telegraph wires high above the ground （电话或电报线路的）电线杆