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Definition of Starting post
1. Noun. A post marking the starting point of a race (especially a horse race).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starting Post
Literary usage of Starting post
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1905)
"9 x 2 x 0.5 cm. which I shall call the "starting-post. ... In my experiments the
set screws were adjusted to permit of a movement of the starting-post of i ..."
2. Stories from Old-fashioned Children's Books by Andrew White Tuer (1900)
"... them that they were to run their donkeys three times round the paling, and
the first that reached the starting post would obtain the donkey he rode on. ..."
3. The Working and Management of an English Railway by George Findlay (1899)
"... junction placed under it, and the distant signal for the left-hand junction
must be carried by a separate post to the left of the home or starting post. ..."
4. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"... the order of play will be from the starting-post to hoop 1, and so on to the
... from any place not more than a mallet's length from the starting-post. ..."
5. A Guide to Modern English History by William Johnson Cory (1882)
"Just as he set himself to bring a colt to the starting-post, just as he desired
to win the stakes or the gold cup, so did he, when Lord Grey and the English ..."
6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"So we crossed them again ; we came to the starting- post, and the horses being
... So then, I lell you, we came to I he starting-post, and went round ..."
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