(obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route.
(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
(American football) A moderate to deep passingroute in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
Prepositiot
after; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications
Verbit
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
(transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
To send an item of mail.
To assign to a station; to set; to place.
To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
(UK, horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly
sent via the postal service
Esimerkit
In post he came.
Payer la caution de quelqu’un.
I posted the notice on the employee bulletin board.
One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.
Post a sentinel in front of the door.
It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, [...] or to get him posted.
Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.
She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.
In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.
I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.
And post o'er land and ocean without rest.
Post speedily to my lord your husband.
Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.
He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.
But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.
Two of the receivers ran post patterns.
I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post.
sent via post; parcel post
information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.
I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, / Receiving them from such a worthless post.
In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.
a stage or railway post
Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.
thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day
You have not posted your books these ten years.
to post someone for cowardice
Post no bills.
On pain of being posted to your sorrow / Fail not, at four, to meet me.