| 单词 | telegraph post | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastelegraph post   telegraph post  n. 		 †(a) a position at which a semaphore signalling apparatus is located (obsolete);		 (b) the upright post of a semaphore; = telegraph pole n. (a)   (now historical and rare);		 (c) a pole or mast used to carry telegraph or (in later use) other utility cables; = telegraph pole n. (b). ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > 			[noun]		 > pole telegraph post1799 telegraph pole1808 telephone pole1879 1799    Naval Chron. 1 537  				The signal for the enemy's fleet being out in force has been flying at the Telegraph Post, Maker Heights, since day-break, to alarm the different signal posts on the coast. 1810    Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 6 421  				On the 15th, however, two men came from the telegraph post at Archi, near Melazzo, which had always been deemed an unhealthy spot. 1811    Pilot 26 Apr.  				Part of a telegraphic dispatch was received there [sc. Lisbon], by means of signal telegraph posts erected on the high Sierras. 1821    Courier 1 Jan.  				St. Helena..is fortified all round, and numerous telegraph posts are planted, wereby [sic] vessels are descried 90 miles distant. 1845    N.-Y. Daily Tribune 25 July 2/6  				The Telegraph Posts are to be forty feet high through Broadway, and handsomely painted. 1851    H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 30 Sept. 		(1992)	 IV. 112  				Methinks these telegraph posts should bear a great price with musical instrument makers. 1901    Wide World Mag. 6 449/2  				I saw the vagrant telegraph-posts trailing along the horizon like a row of match-sticks. 1950    D. Thomas Let. 10 Jan. 		(1987)	 741  				Just outside Bristol, he drove his car into a telegraph post and buckled it, which I hope drove his Mother mad. 2015    Dorset Echo 		(Nexis)	 9 Feb.  				We have got telegraph posts every 100 yards. We are used to seeing these things. < as lemmas  | 
	
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