footpost

Moss crossed the room and took hold of the footpost of the bed and swung the bed sideways with one hand.

No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005

Silverbridge; at which place, between six and seven in the morning, it was shouldered by the Framley footpost messenger, and in due course delivered at the Framley Parsonage exactly as Mrs Robarts had finished reading prayers to the four servants.

Framley Parsonage 2004

“I walked a footpost with Bill McKay, in Roosevelt, back in sixty-three,” said Trimble.

The Honor Farm John Westermann 1996

Ashley, one of the older teenagers, had each ankle tied to a footpost.

Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995

She considered him carefully, then stretched down to the footpost of the bed where her handbag hung by its strap.

More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953

Round one footpost of the bed was a long coil of thin hide, a lasso, and on another was suspended an iron cap, or visorless helmet.

After London Or, Wild England Richard Jefferies 1867

By that train, the letter was sent towards the metropolis as far as the junction of the Barset branch line, but there it was turned in its course, and came down again by the main line as far as Silverbridge; at which place, between six and seven in the morning, it was shouldered by the Framley footpost messenger, and in due course delivered at the Framley Parsonage exactly as Mrs. Robarts had finished reading prayers to the four servants.

Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1848