handpost
handpost noun: a kind of signpost indicating what lies in various directions.
Noun
handpost (plural handposts)
- 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.1897, Thomas Hardy, The Grave by the Handpost
- Here too were the dainty frontispiece and trim vignette, pointing like handposts on the outskirts of great cities, to the rich stock of incident beyond […]1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC
Forms of handpost
| plural | handposts |
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Origin of handpost
From hand + post.
Questions about handpost
- What does handpost mean?
- Handpost means a kind of signpost indicating what lies in various directions.
- What part of speech is handpost?
- Handpost is a noun.
- What is the plural of handpost?
- The plural of handpost is handposts.
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