horse-post

"I ain't got time to play horse-post here all day."

The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels

I stood on the edge of the sidewalk, clinging to the horse-post, and appealed in vain to wagons going by.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

Under the treaties of 1858 and 1860 a post-route between the Russian frontier and Kalgan was established, and in spite of the competing railway through Manchuria, a horse-post still crosses the desert three times a month each way.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

They dragged him to the horse-post, backed him against it, chained him to it, and piled wood and pine cones around him waist-deep.

A Double-Barreled Detective Story 1902

As I turned to the horse-post she even followed me; and I make no shame to confess that I rode away with the one stirrup on and scrambling for the other.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

After she had looked through the glass, she laid it down, leaned her head back against the pillow, for she was very tired, and then said, "Why don't you unchain the horse from the horse-post?"

The Peterkin Papers Lucretia Peabody 1886

The street of Calistoga joins the perpendicular to both-a wide street, with bright, clean, low houses, here and there a verandah over the sidewalk, here and there a horse-post, here and there lounging townsfolk.

The Silverado Squatters 1884

As I turned to the horse-post she even followed me; and I make no shame to confess that I rode away with the one stirrup on and scrambling for the other.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

They dragged him to the horse-post, backed him against it, chained him to it, and piled wood and pine cones around him waist-deep.

A Double Barrelled Detective Story Mark Twain 1872

As I turned to the horse-post she even followed me; and I make no shame to confess that I rode away with the one stirrup on and scrambling for the other.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872