Handpost
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A kind of signpost indicating what lies in various directions.
"Long Ash Lane cut athwart them, right and left; and they saw that at the junction of the four ways, under the handpost, a grave was dug, into which, as the choir drew nigh, a corpse had just been thrown by the four Sidlinch men employed for the purpose."
Example
More examples"Long Ash Lane cut athwart them, right and left; and they saw that at the junction of the four ways, under the handpost, a grave was dug, into which, as the choir drew nigh, a corpse had just been thrown by the four Sidlinch men employed for the purpose."
Etymology
From hand + post.
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