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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An upright timber in the sill and plate of a freight-car, forming one of the vertical members of the frame of the body. It corresponds to the window-posts in a passenger-car.
- noun A post at the forward end of the opening in the deadwood of a steamship, within which the screw turns.
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