stobie pole

plural stobie poles

1. alternativeAlternative form of Stobie pole.

plural Stobie poles · alternative stobie pole

1. AustraliaSouthA pole for supporting power lines, consisting of a tapered slab of concrete bracketed by steel joists.

   He stood behind an old and dilapidated Stobie pole and eyed me and my pushbike.

   1985, Tad Sobolewski, Crossing the Bridges, page 76

   3 more examples

   The estimated life of the Stobie pole is forty-five years, without any maintenance but coating with bitumen at the ground line.

   1927, Physical Society of London, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Science Abstracts, page 45

   Pepe, at ten years old, had just stolen his first car, a blue VW parked up the street. He was too small to reach the brake pedal and pranged it into a stobie pole.

   1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed Of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 243

   However, the lack of trees in South Australia severely constrained the use of timber and led to the early and widespread use of a steel-concrete composite pole, called a Stobie pole after its designer. Stobie poles have been a distinguishing feature of the South Australian landscape for many decades.

   2008, Graeme Dandy, David Walker, Trevor Daniell, Robert Warner, Planning and Design of Engineering Systems, Second Edition, page 68