utility pole

:  fitness for some purpose or worth to some end

:  something useful or designed for use

:  public utility

:  capable of serving as a substitute in various roles or positions

:  kept to provide a useful product or service rather than for show or as a pet

:  being of a usable but inferior grade

:  a long slender usually cylindrical object (such as a length of wood)

:  a shaft which extends from the front axle of a wagon between wheelhorses and by which the wagon is drawn :  tongue

:  a long staff of wood, metal, or fiberglass used in the pole vault

:  to act upon with a pole

:  to impel or push with a pole

:  to propel a boat with a pole

:  either extremity of an axis of a sphere and especially of the earth's axis

:  either of two related opposites

:  a point of guidance or attraction