gatepost
nounEtymology From gate + post.
1
a vertical post from which a gate is hung/attached.
- A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill, London: Penguin Books, published 1994, page 9:
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