Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the posts at the head of a four-post bedstead.
- noun In the stall-partition of a stable, the post nearest the manger.
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Examples
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The graves were fenced round with a slight bamboo railing, and a little carved wooden head-post was put to mark the spot.
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That the showers may not find me unprepared, I pack with my hamaca an extra length of rope, to be stretched taut from foot-post to head-post, that
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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To-day I received three letters from your Reverence by the way of the head-post.
Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings Alexander Whyte 1878
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The graves were fenced round with a slight bamboo railing, and a little carved wooden head-post was put to mark the spot.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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