Dictionary

gatepost en · NOUN

Etymology

From gate + post.

Meanings

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:

Forms

Translations (7)

sv grindstolpe (vertical post from which a gate is hung) · nl hekpijler (vertical post from which a gate is hung) · ga cuaille geata (vertical post from which a gate is hung) · de Torpfosten (vertical post from which a gate is hung) · fi pieli (vertical post from which a gate is hung) · ru верея́ (vertical post from which a gate is hung) · ga garma geata (vertical post from which a gate is hung)