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Telephone line

noun

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

A telephone connection. Synonyms: line, phone line, subscriber line, telephone circuit.

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"Telephone line" Quotes from Famous Books

... tower above, equipped with a powerful searchlight. The forts themselves were pierced with loopholes for rifle fire and the only entrance was by a door twelve feet above ground, impossible of entrance after the ladder had been drawn up from within. The forts were connected by a telephone line. They have all fallen into ruins and are half swallowed up by the jungle, while the half mile clearing is being ...

— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... we've got to do," Bud declared, "is to mend that break in the telephone line. If that had been working last night you could have called us up, Kid, instead of you and Buck having ...

— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker

... Headquarters to the effect that the 137th Brigade were across the canal, arrived at 8.30 a.m., and orders were at once sent to the three Battalions to get on the move and keep in close touch. Unfortunately our telephone line to Brigade Headquarters was broken, and the message had to be sent by runners, who after experiencing the greatest difficulty owing to the fog, eventually reached us at 9.37 a.m. Orders were sent to Companies as quickly as possible, and we moved off again in artillery formation, ...

— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman

Words linked to "Telephone line" : trunk line, hot line, conducting wire, WATS, connection, DSL, land line, private line, phone cord, party line, toll line, WATS line, wire, telephone cord, landline, connecter, digital subscriber line, connexion, connective, connector