post

A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

ram a post into the ground

A stud; a two-by-four.

A pole in a battery.

A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.

A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.

To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

Post no bills.

Martin Luther posted his ninety five theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg.

To announce publicly; to publish.

The company posted record profits this quarter.

Although New York City preceded many large cities in posting a drop in homicides and other violent offenses in the early 1990s, by the end of the decade it also seemed to be at the forefront of a possible cyclical rebound.

To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

to post someone for cowardice

On Pain of being posted to your Sorrow Fail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.

To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.

You have not poſted your Books theſe Ten years; hovv is it poſſible for a Man of Buſineſs to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?

To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.

thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day

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.

A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

a stage or railway post

A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

September 6th.—The English mail of the 10th of July arrived to-day, and while Mr. Hart was at the Foreign Office engaged on business with Wan-se-ang and Hang-Ki, he received his Shang-hai letters, one of which contained the news of the recapture by the Imperial forces of the cities of Woo-tu and Nan-ching, two important rebel posts.

Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.

I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post.

in certain ſet places there be alwaies fresh Poſts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the others

An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.

sent via post; parcel post

I take it too as an opportunity of sending you the fair copy of the poem on Dullness, which was not then finished, and which I should not care to hazard by the common post.