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fence-post

fence-post is the alternative spelling of fencepost.

Meaning of fencepost

Noun

fencepost (plural fenceposts)

  1. A post which helps hold up a fence.
    • Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72

Forms of fence-post

pluralfence-posts

Questions about fence-post

What is fence-post the alternative spelling of?
Fence-post is the alternative spelling of fencepost.

Words near fence-post in the dictionary

  1. fence times
  2. fence viewer
  3. fence wire
  4. fence wires
  5. fence-mending
  6. fence-post
  7. fence-posts
  8. fence-sat
  9. fence-sit
  10. fence-sits
  11. fence-sitter

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