telegraph pole

telegraph pole (plural telegraph poles)

1. A telegraph post
   • 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137:

     By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.

• utility pole