Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Winning \Win"ning\, n.
The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.
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The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural.
Ye seek land and sea for your winnings.
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(Mining)
A new opening.
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The portion of a coal field out for working.
Winning headway (Mining), an excavation for exploration, in post-and-stall working.
Winning post, the post, or goal, at the end of a race.
Wiktionary
n. The post that marks the end of a racecourse, sometimes equipped with a camera for recording photo finishes
WordNet
n. the post at the end of a racecourse
Wikipedia
Winning Post is a thoroughbred horse racing simulation game series from Tecmo Koei (originally Koei) debuting in 1993. The series is distinct from Koei's other horse-racing franchise, G1 Jockey, and Tecmo's Gallop Racer series. To date, the only version of the game to be released outside of Japan was the Sega Saturn port of Winning Post EX, released in North America as Winning Post. All of the other games have only been released in Japan.
Usage examples of "winning post".
I lived through such a peak of ecstasy on the lengthy walk round from the winning post to the unsaddling enclosure that nothing after, I thought, could ever match it.
The horses were rounding the far bend, galloping toward him into the last straight for the winning post, now past in a thundering blur as he strained his rheumy old eyes to find his numbers.
In the end he cantered slowly past the winning post with his head down in tiredness, and mine down too, in defeat and humiliation.
I passed the winning post, patted my mount's neck, and looked at the stands.
Turning into the straight five furlongs from the winning post, Dozen Roses was in fourth place and making not much progress.
Down the sand track Gunnar Holth's string was starting a canter, and as we watched they came up fast towards us and swept past along to the winning post and round the top of the course where the pond lay.
I could hear horses thudding behind me and the mother's voice exhorting her slow coach Approaching the Pond fence, I could sense the earl's son's horse beginning to tire, I could see that precious winning post far ahead and the way to it clear, and for at least a few moments I thought I might win.
Away from the last, towards the winning post, he'd floundered about beneath me and if I hadn't been ruthless he'd have slowed to a trot.
The sight of him sprinting up the hill to the winning post, a dark streak of rhythm, had given me a rare bursting feeling of admiration, of joy—.
I thought it would be capital sport to take him along to one of the accommodation houses in Haymarket, and get him paired off with a whore in a galloping wheelbarrow race, for it was certain he'd never been astride a female in his life, and it would have been splendid to see them bumping across the floor together on hands and knees towards the winning post.