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Gatepost   Listen
noun
Gatepost  n.  
1.
A post to which a gate is hung; called also swinging post or hinging post.
2.
A post against which a gate closes; called also shutting post.





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"Gatepost" Quotes from Famous Books



... bestirred himself abruptly. He stood up from his lounging against the gatepost, and his great height and breadth of muscular shoulders seemed suddenly to have grown. "So I live. And you are glad. That's it. So I live. It's always that way—with you and Uncle Steve. It's for me. All the time for me. Not ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum


Words linked to "Gatepost" :   shutting post, swinging post


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