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telegraph pole
A utilities pole for carrying overhead cables (which haven't had anything to do with telegraphy for decades). Outside Tasmania I have mainly heard "power pole" or "Stovey pole" (sp??): There were live wires on the ground after the storm blew down the telegraph pole. Compare hydro pole, power pole, SEC pole, Stobie pole, telepole.
Contributor's comments: In Tassie, it is more commonly called a hydro-pole. A telegraph pole, when still in use was more commonly made of an iron girder not the wooden pole of the 'power pole'
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Sydney where we always called them "telegraph poles", and nothing else (not even power pole, nor electricity pole, as logical as these names obviously are). Here they are all wooden, and carry the telephone lines as well as the power cables.
Contributor's comments: In Upper Hunter we have timber power poles that are quite often referred to as "telegraph poles".
Contributor's comments: They are called telegraph poles in Brisbane also.
Contributor's comments: I'm in the electricity supply industry and I'm pretty sure "Stobie" poles are the flat cement and steel poles used mostly in SA .These are primarially in areas where termites are a problem and appear in smaller numbers all around Aust.