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fencepost

fencepost noun: a post which helps hold up a fence.

fencepost: a post which helps hold up a fence
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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 fencepost

pluralfenceposts
alternative formfence-post
alternative formfence post

Origin of fencepost

From fence + post.

Words formed from fencepost

Phrases with fencepost

Questions about fencepost

What does fencepost mean?
Fencepost means a post which helps hold up a fence.
What part of speech is fencepost?
Fencepost is a noun.
What is the plural of fencepost?
The plural of fencepost is fenceposts.

Words near fencepost in the dictionary

  1. fencelike
  2. fenceline
  3. fencelines
  4. fencepole
  5. fencepoles
  6. fencepost
  7. fencepost error
  8. fencepost errors
  9. fencepost problem
  10. fencepost problems
  11. fenceposts

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