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gatepost
gatepost
A post, usually one of a pair, between which a gate swings or slides; see hanging post.
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They went around to the rear of the building, where they saw a horse, attached to a light wagon, hitched to a gatepost near the door of the dissecting-room.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
A bald, well-preserved old man, with a broad, red beard, gray on his cheeks, opened the gate, squeezing against the gatepost to let the three horses pass.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
She took off the thick boots in which she had walked thus far, put on her pretty thin ones of patent leather, and, stuffing the former into the hedge by the gatepost where she might readily find them again, descended the hill; the freshness of colour she had derived from the keen air thinning away in spite of her as she drew near the parsonage.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
 
 
 
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