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Pylon   /pˈaɪlˌɑn/   Listen
Pylon

noun
1.
A tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race.
2.
A large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines.  Synonym: power pylon.



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"Pylon" Quotes from Famous Books



... and round them heap the slain. First Damasus, by Polypoetes' steel, Pierced through his helmet's brazen visor, fell; The weapon drank the mingled brains and gore! The warrior sinks, tremendous now no more! Next Ormenus and Pylon yield their breath: Nor less Leonteus strews the field with death; First through the belt Hippomachus he gored, Then sudden waved his unresisted sword: Antiphates, as through the ranks he broke, The falchion struck, and fate pursued the stroke: Iamenus, ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer
... thick to prevent the infiltration of the rain. The dwellings of the wealthy lords were usually erected in the centre of a garden, or of a cultivated court, and occupied a considerable space. The entrance was announced by a colonaded porch or a pylon, and the interior was like a small city,—the dwelling in the background, with the granaries, stables, servants' quarters and out-buildings disposed here and there about ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various


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