Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus used for protecting telegraph or telephone lines, offices, instruments, and operators from lightning-discharges.
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Examples
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Next, finding an old lightning-arrester, he opened up the hiding-place, and arranged the arrester beneath the cash-box in such a way that on the box being moved the arrester arm would be released, fly back, and make a contact.
The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs
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The little visit to Jasper Grierson's library was not prolonged beyond the invalid's strength; but notwithstanding its brevity there were inert currents of antagonism evolved which Margery, present and endeavoring to serve as a lightning-arrester, could neither ground nor turn aside.
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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