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Definition of Gateposts
1. gatepost [n] - See also: gatepost
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gateposts
Literary usage of Gateposts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1920)
"If the gateposts were maintained, the door was, as yet, too narrow to ...
Rheims and Soissons were thus the gateposts, or " corners," in military phrase. ..."
2. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"... as well as Kw'i'tuty, the gateposts of this pen ... and the other two (ibid., names
555, 741) to pen gateposts ..."
3. The Colonial Architecture of Salem by Frank Cousins, Phil Madison Riley (1919)
"simple, with considerable elaboration of the gateposts, often, ... These high,
square gateposts with shapely urns and surmounting flame motives are the best ..."
4. History of Indian and Eastern Architecture by James Fergusson (1899)
"The four jambs or gateposts are each of a single slab of granite, more than 40 ft.
in height, and the roofing- slabs throughout measure from 23 ft, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, the Forms of Actions, and on Pleading by Joseph Chitty (1831)
"... banks, mounds, gateposts, and other posts in the said declaration mentioned,
before the said several times when, &c. had been wrongfully erected, ..."
6. A History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1876)
"The four jambs or gateposts are each of a single slab of granite, more than 40 ft.
in height, and the roofing- slabs throughout measure from 2.i ft. to 24 ..."
7. The US Virgin Islands Alive! by Harriet Greenberg, Douglas Greenberg (2006)
"Whim Great House As you pass the stone gateposts and mailbox which lead from ...
These gateposts and another set nearer the house were brought here from ..."
8. The Wood-carver of Salem: Samuel McIntire, His Life and Work by Frank Cousins, Phil Madison Riley (1916)
"These high, square gateposts with their shapely urns and surmounting flame motives
are the best and most elaborate of the many in Salem by McIntire. ..."
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