utility pole

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one of a series of large, upright poles used to support telephone wires, electric cables, or the like.

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The reptiles are infamous for having wiped out almost all of the native forest birds on Guam and frequently cause power outages by clambering up utility poles.
Brown tree snakes use their tails as lassos to climb wide trees|Maria Temming|January 11, 2021|Science News
Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread|IranWire|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019|Dave Majumdar|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
World GDP (including North Pole toyshop gross output) is $84.97 trillion.
Santa Fails One More Time|P. J. O’Rourke|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It seems to me that both sides need to move toward the “staying connected” pole.
Fixing a Dysfunctional Family: Congress|Gene Robinson|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Both political parties, and the President, have moved too close to the “standing alone” pole.
Fixing a Dysfunctional Family: Congress|Gene Robinson|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To place wit above sense is to place superfluity above utility.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
Knowing by experience that he would soon be up to it, he used his pole with all his might, hoping to steer clear of it.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Then, having shot nothing that day, he turned towards the Pole with a feeling of disappointment.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
These Eskimos were very fond of kite-flying, for its own sake, without reference to utility!
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne