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footpost

noun

Etymology

From foot + post.

  1. derived from postis
  2. derived from post
  3. derived from post
  4. inherited from post
  5. compounded as footpost — “foot + post”

Definitions

  1. A bedpost at the foot of a bed.

  2. 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 […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA