"Stobie pole" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Stobie (“surname”) + pole, after the inventor, James Cyril Stobie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Stobie poles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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          "name": "Australian English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1927, Physical Society of London, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Science Abstracts, page 45:",
          "text": "The estimated life of the Stobie pole is forty-five years, without any maintenance but coating with bitumen at the ground line.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Tad Sobolewski, Crossing the Bridges, page 76:",
          "text": "He stood behind an old and dilapidated Stobie pole and eyed me and my pushbike.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed Of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 243:",
          "text": "Pepe, at ten years old, had just stolen his first car, a blue VW parked up the street. He was too small to reach the brake pedal and pranged it into a stobie pole.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Graeme Dandy, David Walker, Trevor Daniell, Robert Warner, Planning and Design of Engineering Systems, Second Edition, page 68:",
          "text": "However, the lack of trees in South Australia severely constrained the use of timber and led to the early and widespread use of a steel-concrete composite pole, called a Stobie pole after its designer. Stobie poles have been a distinguishing feature of the South Australian landscape for many decades.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pole for supporting power lines, consisting of a tapered slab of concrete bracketed by steel joists."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "power line",
          "power line"
        ],
        [
          "concrete",
          "concrete"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, chiefly South Australia) A pole for supporting power lines, consisting of a tapered slab of concrete bracketed by steel joists."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stobie pole"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "South"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Stobie pole"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Stobie pole"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From Stobie (“surname”) + pole, after the inventor, James Cyril Stobie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Stobie poles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Australian English",
        "English countable nouns",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "South Australian English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1927, Physical Society of London, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Science Abstracts, page 45:",
          "text": "The estimated life of the Stobie pole is forty-five years, without any maintenance but coating with bitumen at the ground line.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Tad Sobolewski, Crossing the Bridges, page 76:",
          "text": "He stood behind an old and dilapidated Stobie pole and eyed me and my pushbike.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed Of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 243:",
          "text": "Pepe, at ten years old, had just stolen his first car, a blue VW parked up the street. He was too small to reach the brake pedal and pranged it into a stobie pole.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Graeme Dandy, David Walker, Trevor Daniell, Robert Warner, Planning and Design of Engineering Systems, Second Edition, page 68:",
          "text": "However, the lack of trees in South Australia severely constrained the use of timber and led to the early and widespread use of a steel-concrete composite pole, called a Stobie pole after its designer. Stobie poles have been a distinguishing feature of the South Australian landscape for many decades.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A pole for supporting power lines, consisting of a tapered slab of concrete bracketed by steel joists."
      ],
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        [
          "power line",
          "power line"
        ],
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          "concrete",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, chiefly South Australia) A pole for supporting power lines, consisting of a tapered slab of concrete bracketed by steel joists."
      ],
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        "Australia",
        "South"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
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    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "stobie pole"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Stobie pole"
}