utility pole
noun
: a tall wooden pole that is used to support telephone wires, electrical wires, etc.
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Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers said the 70-year-old dump truck driver traveled off the side of an Owensville road around 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, before striking a utility pole, parking post and tree.
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Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
In her backyard, though, a utility pole was ablaze, the flames threatening to spread.
—Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
The utility pole project policed by the Coastal Commission in 2020 was a public works project designed to install stronger, metal, utility poles in the Palisades, as some of the utility poles in the area were built almost 100 years ago.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Listen to this article A man who state police allege was driving with a blood alcohol content nearly twice the legal limit struck a utility pole on Route 66 in Hebron in the early morning hours Thursday, which snapped the pole and took down power lines.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2025
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Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
In her backyard, though, a utility pole was ablaze, the flames threatening to spread.
—Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
The utility pole project policed by the Coastal Commission in 2020 was a public works project designed to install stronger, metal, utility poles in the Palisades, as some of the utility poles in the area were built almost 100 years ago.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Listen to this article A man who state police allege was driving with a blood alcohol content nearly twice the legal limit struck a utility pole on Route 66 in Hebron in the early morning hours Thursday, which snapped the pole and took down power lines.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Utility pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utility%20pole. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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