swinging post

1. 1.

   the gatepost on which the gate is hung

   Synonymshinging post

   Broadergatepost

Questions about swinging post

What does swinging post mean?

swinging post means "the gatepost on which the gate is hung".

What is another word for swinging post?

Close synonyms include hinging post. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swinging post a common word?

swinging 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.