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Definition of Lamppost
1. Noun. A metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight).
Definition of Lamppost
1. n. A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc.
Definition of Lamppost
1. Noun. The pole that holds up a light so it can illuminate a wide area, such as holds up a streetlight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lamppost
1. a post supporting a streetlight [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamppost
Literary usage of Lamppost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Electrical Engineer (1892)
"There will then at every house or every lamppost be terminals that are within
easy reach for whatever service may be required. For the moment restrict the ..."
2. Report by New York (N.Y.) Dept. of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity (1908)
"It shall also be the duty of the police to report the breakage or any other damage
to any public street lamp or lamppost to the Commissioner of Department ..."
3. Electrical Review (1891)
"Electric Light : " Does your mother know you're out, Mr. lamppost Î " lamppost
... lamppost : " You needn't talk, for you're a good deal lighter in the head ..."
4. The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror by Charles Eugene Banks, Opie Percival Read (1906)
"The instrument consists of an object like a common street lamppost set upon a
pedestal of ... This lamppost is sensitive to every vibration of the earth, ..."
5. The Legal News by James Kirby (1888)
"The learned judge left it to the jury to say whether the lamppost from its position
was dangerous, and if it was, whether it was the sole cause of the ..."
6. The Law of Motor Vehicles by Berkeley Reynolds Davids (1911)
"of negligence.6 And where it is shown that the collision occurred in daylight
and the position of the lamppost must have been obvious, a frima facie case of ..."
7. Conservation Laws by Benjamin Crowell (2003)
"You walk straight into a lamppost. Why is the momentum change of -100 kg-m/s
caused by the lamppost so much more painful than the change of +100 kg-m/s when ..."
8. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"He was, by dint of | superior strength and the fulcrum of the lamppost, constantly
pushing the whole party along the kerb, as tne clown does the bodies of ..."
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