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Lamp-post

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Lamp´-post`
n.1.A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc.


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The pony ran off at a sharp angle to inspect a lamp-post on the opposite side of the way, and then went off at a tangent to another lamp-post on the other side.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye--nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient--damned odd standing in the open street half an hour, with your eye against a lamp-post--eh,--very good-- ha
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
I lunged gayly with my stick at a lamp-post and missed it, whereat a street-urchin grinned, and I winked at him and slipped twopence down his back.
The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
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