What is "gatepost"

Usage examples of "gatepost".

The brick wall and gateposts on the south side of the innyard had fallen inward, but the culvert under the entrance lane remained.

I spot the gate to the driveway I make a quick turn, and what happens but I run the car slapdab into a stone gatepost, and the car folds up like an accordion.

Tom pulled the bell on the gatepost, and after a few minutes Sorges, smoking a cigar and wearing a ribbed mohair V-neck and a pair of deck pants, came into the garden to let him in.

It could be seen in the many cornices and gable ends, chimneys, roof tiles, and gateposts.

As soon as the truck cleared the gateposts, Lath left the gate standing open and scrambled back into the cab.

At the entrance to the park there are two stone gateposts, four-sided, bevelled at the top, Egyptian-looking.

Father and son drew back between the gateposts, but in the next instant they stopped, rooted speechless in their tracks.

As Alastair, stiffly feeling his stirrups, passed between the dry-stone gateposts, he heard a roaring behind him, and, turning, saw flames licking the roof.

Japanese tinkle gatebell affixed to left lateral gatepost, a capacious waterbutt, a lawnmower with side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with hydraulic hose.

Carved pillars made of whole tree trunks stood in three rings inside, and two huge freestanding gateposts like Abstract Expressionist totem poles marked the southeastern door.

Now, the only indications that once Scardale had deliberately cut itself off were the stone gateposts and the cattle grid that her wide-profile tyres bumped softly over.

Even the black granite ravens on the gateposts seemed about to shake their wings and join the growing dawn chorus.

Involuntarily she had grabbed hold of the gatepost and was hanging on for dear life.

The tank had brushed a stone gatepost to widen the Compound entrance, then dragged a sparking line across a courtyard-sized mosaic map of Southern District with all the major cities and terrain features described.

Gnashing its teeth, it bit the first three policemen out of the Panda car before they could get back into it, then the gatepost, broke a tooth on the Colonel's Humber, sank its fangs into the police car's front radial tyre to such effect that it was knocked off its own feet by the blow-out while simultaneously rendering their escape impossible, and went snarling off into the night in search of fresh victims.