gatepost

English

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

vertical post from which a gate is hung

Dutch: hekpijler Finnish: pieli (fi) German: Torpfosten (de) m Irish: garma geata m, cuaille geata m Russian: верея́ (ru) f (verejá) (dated) Swedish: grindstolpe c

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