footpost

English

Etymology

From foot +‎ post.

Noun

footpost (plural footposts)

1. A bedpost at the foot of a bed.
2. (historical) A messenger who travels on foot.
   • 1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:

     […] 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 […]