"telegraph post" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From their original purpose of carrying telegraph lines, first used around 1843 by William Fothergill Cooke.",
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      "form": "telegraph posts",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Telegraphy",
          "orig": "en:Telegraphy",
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            "Electronics",
            "Telecommunications",
            "Technology",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Telephony",
          "orig": "en:Telephony",
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            "Electronics",
            "Telecommunications",
            "Technology",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Aircraft on rail tracks”, in Trains Illustrated, page 650:",
          "text": "Here the protection consists of a 50lb per mile cadmium copper trip-wire mounted on short telegraph posts on both sides of the line, 4ft above rail level.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pole, usually wooden, that carries telephone lines above a street."
      ],
      "id": "en-telegraph_post-en-noun-jFPIe2Ol",
      "links": [
        [
          "pole",
          "pole"
        ],
        [
          "wooden",
          "wooden"
        ],
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ],
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "street",
          "street"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ʕamūd al-barīd",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "عَمُود البَرِيد"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "word": "電線桿"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "diànxiàngǎn",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "word": "电线杆"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "word": "puhelinpylväs"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "poteau télégraphique"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Telegraphenmast"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Leitungsmast"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "palo del telegrafo"
        },
        {
          "alt": "でんちゅう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "denchū",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "word": "電柱"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "telegráfnyj stolb",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "телегра́фный столб"
        },
        {
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
          "word": "telegrafastafäd"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "telegraph post"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "telegraph post"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From their original purpose of carrying telegraph lines, first used around 1843 by William Fothergill Cooke.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "telegraph posts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "telegraph post (plural telegraph posts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        {
          "ref": "1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Aircraft on rail tracks”, in Trains Illustrated, page 650:",
          "text": "Here the protection consists of a 50lb per mile cadmium copper trip-wire mounted on short telegraph posts on both sides of the line, 4ft above rail level.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pole, usually wooden, that carries telephone lines above a street."
      ],
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        [
          "pole",
          "pole"
        ],
        [
          "wooden",
          "wooden"
        ],
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ],
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "street",
          "street"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "telegraph post"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʕamūd al-barīd",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "عَمُود البَرِيد"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "word": "電線桿"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "diànxiàngǎn",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "word": "电线杆"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "word": "puhelinpylväs"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "poteau télégraphique"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Telegraphenmast"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Leitungsmast"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "palo del telegrafo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "でんちゅう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "denchū",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "word": "電柱"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "telegráfnyj stolb",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "телегра́фный столб"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "pole that carries telephone lines",
      "word": "telegrafastafäd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "telegraph post"
}