fencepost

English

two fence posts

Alternative forms

• fence-post, fence post

Etymology

From fence +‎ post.

Noun

fencepost (plural fenceposts)

1. A post which helps hold up a fence.
   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72:

     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.

Derived terms

• fencepost error
• fencepost problem

Translations

post holding up a fence

• Danish: hegnspæl (da) c
• Faroese: stika f, hegnpeli m
• Finnish: aitatolppa, aidantolppa
• French: poteau de clôture m, pieu (fr) m
• German: Zaunpfahl (de) m
• Latin: vacerra f
• Maori: pou taiepa, turi (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjerdepåle m, gjerdestolpe m

  Nynorsk: gjerdepåle m, gjerdestolpe m

• Swedish: staketstolpe (sv) c