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fencepost

n. A post which helps hold up a fence.

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Fencepost

A fencepost, fence post or fencing post is a vertical element upholding a fence.

Fence post may also refer to:

  • Steel fence post
  • Tumblewheel
  • Fence post error, a mathematical problem
  • Peruvian Fence Post, a cactus plant

Usage examples of "fencepost".

Marghe was leaning against a fencepost, watching the Singing Pasture horses, when Thenike joined her.

A silent moon loomed low in the sky, throwing long and devious shadows from every fencepost and tree.

A man spends all those years with a fencepost like Grace, he deserves a few diversions.

His rad-ruined face showed all the intelligence of a fencepost and all the friendliness of a cornered rattlesnake.

Even if he knows nothing but the lean of the nearest fencepost, we should learn how the folk of his terseptry feel about the King, and Aglirta in general.

Stake trucks lumbered over the ground, loaded with fenceposts that were rolled off the back of the truck at regular intervals.

I turned around and slowly headed back, trying to note trees, fenceposts, and other landmarks in the dark.

In the afternoon they passed through the ruins of an old ranch on that stony mesa where there were crippled fenceposts propped among the rocks that carried remnants of a wire not seen in that country for years.

The wire that had burned out of the fenceposts lay in garbled shapes about the ground and coils of it stood in the fire and coils of it pulsed red hot deep in the coals.

Barlow scowling in a grim Wyoming snowscape, with long black coat, dark hat, a Macintosh SE30 propped on a fencepost and an awesome frontier rifle tucked under one arm, will be the single most striking visual image of the Hacker Crackdown.