‘Must dash now, need to soak my feet in vinegar to toughen them up.’.‘Speaking of Timbuktu, that's where my next televised adventure's going to be from, and I must dash there.’.‘Must dash, I've got to send off for my I-Spy membership pack.’.‘It is a Wednesday morning and Roly Squire has a small window of time before he must dash across Leeds for the main operating session of the week.’.‘There's so much more that could be said, but Fraser is dying to get on the computer, so I must dash now!’.‘Must dash now and prepare my body for pampering.’.‘Indeed, the lion pounced and the two scuffled, which ended with Hope Butler running out the door in a hurry, dashing as far she could across the concrete jungle.’.‘Must dash, will reply to other post comments later.’.‘Drew and Seigi dashed out and hurried towards their fathers, calling and laughing as they ran.’.‘He quickly swept his daughter into his arms, grabbed his travel bag and dashed towards the open door and into the chaos of the ship.’.‘Other people could be seen on the streets now, hurrying animals that dashed in and out of store to cars or homes, getting what needed to be done, done.’.Setting up on a post exposing the name or character to reproach by public advertisement. It is used in this sense in composition in many English words. POST, a Latin preposition, signifying after. In book-keeping, to carry accounts from the waste-book or journal to the ledger. To set to place to station as, to post troops on a hill, or in front or on the flank of an army.Ĥ. To advertise on a post or in a public place as, to post a stray horse.ģ. To expose to public reproach by fixing the name to a post to expose to opprobrium by some public action as, to post a coward.Ģ. To fix to a post as, to post a notification.ġ. Knight of the post, a fellow suborned or hired to do a bad action.Īnd post o'er land and ocean without rest. Hence, to travel post, is to travel expeditiously by the use of fresh horses taken at certain stations. Post is used also adverbially, for swiftly, expeditiously, or expressly. To ride post, to be employed to carry dispatches and papers, and as such carriers rode in haste, hence the phrase signifies to ride in haste, to pass with expedition. A sort of writing paper, such as is used for letters letter paper. Xenophon informs us the Cyrus, king of Persia, established such stations or houses.ħ. This sense also denotes fixedness, either from the practice of using relays of horses stationed at particular places, or of stationing men for carrying dispatches, or from the fixed stages where they were to be supplied with refreshment. A messenger or a carrier of letters and papers one that goes at stated times to convey the mail or dispatches. When vice prevails and impious men bear sway,ĥ. A public office or employment, that is, a fixed place or station. The troops stationed in a particular place, or the ground they occupy.Ĥ. The troops are ordered to defend the post.

A military station the place where a single soldier or a body of troops is stationed. A piece of timber set upright, usually larger than a stake, and intended to support something else as the posts of a house the posts of a door the posts of a gate the posts of a fence.Ģ. postis, from positus, the given participle of pono, to place.ġ.

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