shutting post

1. 1.

   the gatepost against which the gate closes

   Broadergatepost

Questions about shutting post

What does shutting post mean?

shutting post means "the gatepost against which the gate closes".

Is shutting post a common word?

shutting post is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.