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footpost

noun — 2 senses

footpost

noun

Etymology From foot + post.

1

A bedpost at the foot of a bed.

2

Historical 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 […]1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:

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