Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A post of wood or stone set up for cattle to rub themselves against.

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Examples

  • He now dropped naturally into the Bear habit of seeing how high he could reach with his nose on the rubbing-post, whenever he was near one.

    The Biography of a Grizzly Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • He now dropped naturally into the Bear habit of seeing how high he could reach with his nose on the rubbing-post, whenever he was near one.

    The Biography of a Grizzly Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • There was a groom behind him, and another at the rubbing-post, all in livery as glorious as New Jerusalem.

    A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

  • The bark was rubbed completely away, and this appeared to have been used for years as a favourite rubbing-post by some immense elephant.

    The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

  • The mud plastered to a great height upon the stem showed this to be his favourite rubbing-post after bathing.

    The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

  • Moormen gun-bearers, who were trusty fellows that I had frequently shot with, I crept cautiously back to my former position, and took my station behind the large tree farthest from the point which commanded the favourite rubbing-post and within fifty yards of it.

    The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

  • The bark was rubbed completely away, and this appeared to have been used for years as a favourite rubbing-post by some immense elephant.

    The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon Baker, Samuel W. 1854

  • I soon restored quiet, and ordering the horses to be led into the jungle lest he should discover them, I made the people conceal themselves; and taking my two Moormen gun-bearers, who were trusty fellows that I had frequently shot with, I crept cautiously back to my former position, and took my station behind the large tree farthest from the point which commanded the favourite rubbing-post and within fifty yards of it.

    The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon Baker, Samuel W. 1854

  • The mud plastered to a great height upon the stem showed this to be his favourite rubbing-post after bathing.

    The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon Baker, Samuel W. 1854

  • The bark of the tree -- a full-topped shady acacia -- for some distance up was worn smooth upon one side, just as though cattle had used it for a rubbing-post.

    The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850

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