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backpost

backpost noun: a pole or post onto the front of which items to be used are attached.

Noun

backpost (plural backposts)

  1. A pole or post onto the front of which items to be used are attached.
    • The built-up type of rudder, i.e. the rudder produced by shrinking forged arms on to a backpost, is a very nice example of fabrication without welding.1949, Steel Processing and Conversion, volume 35, page 588
    • I know one chair company whose product engineer built a backpost boring machine on which all the boring heads are fixed in position.1971, Furniture Production, volume 34, number 235, page 25

Forms of backpost

pluralbackposts

Origin of backpost

From back- + post.

Questions about backpost

What does backpost mean?
Backpost means a pole or post onto the front of which items to be used are attached.
What part of speech is backpost?
Backpost is a noun.
What is the plural of backpost?
The plural of backpost is backposts.

Words near backpost in the dictionary

  1. backportability
  2. backportable
  3. backported
  4. backporting
  5. backports
  6. backpost
  7. backposts
  8. backpressure
  9. backpressures
  10. backprime
  11. backprimed

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