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foot-post

foot-post is the alternative form of footpost.

Meaning of footpost

Noun

footpost (plural footposts)

  1. A bedpost at the foot of a bed.
  2. (historical) A messenger who travels on foot.
    • […] at which place, between six and seven in the morning, it was shouldered by the Framley footpost messenger, and in due course delivered at the Framley Parsonage […]1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

Forms of foot-post

pluralfoot-posts

Questions about foot-post

What is foot-post the alternative form of?
Foot-post is the alternative form of footpost.

Words near foot-post in the dictionary

  1. foot-measure
  2. foot-pace
  3. foot-paces
  4. foot-pad
  5. foot-pads
  6. foot-post
  7. foot-pound
  8. foot-pound-second
  9. foot-pound-seconds
  10. foot-poundal
  11. foot-poundals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foot-post (page history and authors); footpost (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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