hydro pole

noun, Cdn., an esp. wooden vertical pole supporting a hydro line (COD)

“The winter of 1948, we drew all the hydro poles from Kingston on the ice, with teams and sleighs.”

“They used to line up the hydro poles on Garden Island with the barns on Garden Island.”

“Everybody was comparing the cost of hydro poles and different things that they were putting in, you know.”

“There’s still a hydro pole there. The top’s cut off, but you can still see the singed side of the pole from the fire.”

“So his boat was sitting down in the slip by the dock. A whole bunch of us caught a hold of it and we took it up the hydro pole, and we hung it on one of these rungs right at the top. That was a Halloween night. It was on a Saturday night.”