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Telegraph wire   /tˈɛləgrˌæf wˈaɪər/   Listen
Telegraph wire

noun
1.
The wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals.  Synonyms: telegraph line, telephone line, telephone wire.





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"Telegraph wire" Quotes from Famous Books



... under-sea telegraph wire across the Irish Channel, may be taken as a new instance of the indifference consequent on familiarity. When the line was laid from Dover to Calais, the whole land rang with the fact; but now the sinking of a ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 - Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 • Various
... chatting with a handsome boy admirer, but left him to take aside a confidential friend that she might read her a letter. It was from her mother, a widow with this only daughter. They passed out of the gate, crossed the road to be out of hearing, and stood under the telegraph wire, when the letter was opened. Her lips were scarce parted to read when the flash came—an arrow of intense light-' Oh, horrible! horrible! How can you blame me for fear ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe


Words linked to "Telegraph wire" :   wire, telephone line, conducting wire, telephone cord, telegraph line, phone cord


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