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CORNER POST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corner post mean? 

CORNER POST (noun)
  The noun CORNER POST has 1 sense:

1. a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a buildingplay

  Familiarity information: CORNER POST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CORNER POST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("corner post" is a kind of...):

post (an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position)


 Context examples 


As he entered Wilson pulled the canary-yellow handkerchief from his waist, and going to the corner post, he tied it to the top of it, where it remained fluttering in the breeze.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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