starting post

1. 1.

   a post marking the starting point of a race (especially a horse race)

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Questions about starting post

What does starting post mean?

starting post means "a post marking the starting point of a race (especially a horse race)".

Is starting post a common word?

starting 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.