"telegraph pole" antedating

[Jonathan Lighter]

The OED has "telegraph pole" only from 1851.

1846 _Cleveland [O.] Herald_ (Aug. 22) [Gale 19th Century U.S.American
Newspapers]: He was...too tall for anything but a telegraph pole.

JL
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