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Lamp-post.

A stand for a street-lamp, usually adapted for gas; the pipe rises inside the hollow post, with a burner on top surrounded by a glazed lantern.

Lamp-posts are made to subserve other purposes, such as holding basins for drinking-fountains, the water being conducted up the hollow of the post. Through the same may also pass the wires whereby the jet of gas is lighted by electric action.

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