fencepost

noun

fencepost

noun

Etymology From fence + post.

1

A post which helps hold up a fence.

  • Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72:
Derived terms
fencepost error, fencepost problem

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