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Wires, Overhead. For power to urban authority to make bye-laws for prevention of danger or obstruction from overhead telegraphic wires: see the Public Health and Local Government Acts. As to the power of the Post Office to place telegraph lines across private property or property belonging to public undertakings, etc., see the (English) Telegraph Acts (41 & 42 Vict. c. 76; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 112; and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 40), and special or local Acts....
overhead
overhead : business expenses (as rent or insurance) not chargeable to a particular part of the work or product ...
Overhead line
Overhead line, means an electric line which is placed above the ground and in the open air but does not include live rails of a traction system. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(48)]...
Transmission lines
Transmission lines, means all high pressure cables and overhead lines (not being an essential part of the distribution system of a licensee) transmitting electricity from a generating station to another generation station or a sub-station, together with any step-up and step-down transformers, switch-gear and other works necessary to and used for the control of such cables or overhead lines, and such buildings or part thereof as may be required to accommodate such transforments, switch-gear and other works. [Electricity Act, 2003, s. 2(72)]...
Ceiling
The inside lining of a room overhead the under side of the floor above the upper surface opposite to the floor...
Culminate
To reach its highest point of altitude to come to the meridian to be vertical or directly overhead...
flypaper
A strip of paper that is coated with a sticky substance and suspended from an overhead object to trap and kill flies also a similar paper poisoned so as to kill flies on contact...
Overhead
Aloft above in or attached to the ceiling or roof in the story or upon the floor above in the zenith...
Overhead charges
Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product as where different kinds of goods are made or where there are different departments in a business called also fixed charges establishment charges or in a manufacturing business administration charges selling charges and distribution charges etc...
Castigatory
Castigatory, a certain engine of correction, otherwise called the tre-bucket, tumbrel tymborella, cucking-stool, scolding-stool, ducking-stool, goginstole, and cokestole, corrupted from choaking-stool. It was a punishment provided for scolding women, wherein they were plunged or soused overhead in the water.In Domesday Book it is called Cathedra Stercoralis, and by the Saxons scealfing stole. It was also anciently inflicted on brewers and bakers transgressing the laws, who were ducked in stercore (in stinking water), Jac. LawDict....
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