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hitching post

noun

  1. a post to which horses, mules, etc., are tied.


hitching post

noun

  1. a post or rail to which the reins of a horse, etc, are tied
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hitching post1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

Then, as the car pulled away, he again began his slow movements with the girl delicately balanced on the hitching post.

There, the city is apparently requiring the Hitching Post Lakeside Chapel to officiate gay weddings.

Ikey, who had just vaulted over a hitching-post on his way down the street, came to a sudden halt.

Deaf as a blooming hitching post in the left ear, and the right one not up to no great figger, either.

Ralph tied his pony to the hitching post and strolled up to the door of the store.

The doctor was talking to Father Honoré while untying the horse from the hitching-post at the kitchen porch.

At the hitching post in front was the pony cart and the fat pony of sickening memory.

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