gatepost

English

A gatepost and gate in Perth, Australia

Etymology

From gate +‎ post

Noun

gatepost (plural gateposts)

1. a vertical post from which a gate is hung/attached.
   • 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill, London: Penguin Books, published 1994, page 9:

     A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: pieli (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: grindstolpe c

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