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- noun Alternative spelling of
king post .
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Examples
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Might just be a kinda kingpost for the palace, it's bigger around than I can reach, but I never seen anything like it.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Might just be a kinda kingpost for the palace, it's bigger around than I can reach, but I never seen anything like it.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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The elevators and rudders are composed of a duralumin framework, stiffened by a kingpost on either side with bracing wires.
British Airships, Past, Present, and Future George Whale
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Ninety-two columns supported an open roof, the trusses of which were of the kingpost pattern.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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Of medieval origins and extended in the late 17th century, it has eight bays with two kingpost trusses, gabled additions with cider mill and press, cattle stalls, stable and haylofts with stone chaff bin.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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(chapter ix. full = xi) 18. maîtresse poutre, ‘kingpost.’
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant Alphonse Daudet 1868
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