: a tall wooden pole that supports the wires of a telephone system
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The first physical act was running a fiber-optic cable to a telephone pole.—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 May 2026 State police said the operator of a 2001 Polaris Sportsman 500, a 17-year-old Woodbury boy, veered off the right side of the road and struck a telephone pole.—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026 Some are not much more apparent than a telephone pole.—Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 The tree trunk was as thick as a telephone pole.—Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for telephone pole