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handposts

handposts is the plural of handpost.

Meaning of handpost

Noun

handpost (plural handposts)

  1. 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

Questions about handposts

What is handposts the plural of?
Handposts is the plural of handpost.

Words near handposts in the dictionary

  1. handplanted
  2. handplanting
  3. handplants
  4. handplay
  5. handpost
  6. handposts
  7. handpress
  8. handpresses
  9. handprint
  10. handprinted
  11. handprints

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