lamp standard
Britishnoun
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All at once, Ralph was dancing round a lamp standard.
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He believed that the shattering of the pole against the lamp standard had stopped the bolting horses, and that the tall young man now surveying him with a measuring eye had merely succeeded in catching the reins.
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