earth return

British  

noun

1. the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to earth at each end

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earth return

Whether of mortal mould, or a mere borrower on occasion of our rude forms of earth, return, and say whence thy commission, and of what import.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

Bell, battery and push And earth return 160 77.

From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone

The early telephones were operated with a single wire grounded at either end, the earth return being used to complete the circuit as with the telegraph.

From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Walter Kellogg Towers

Sleep! toward the heavens If thy spirit has flown, Do not to earth return Without having obtained To bring thee up well For me the favour; This duty is all That is life to me!

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster

In roseate clouds I take my ease  Nor to the earth return.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse