GATEPOST • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Gatepost

... stone cylinder or pin, let into a gatepost in such a way as to permit the gate bar to be tied to it. Sometimes the bar-hold is part of one of the ashlars of the gatepost. Bar-holds are usually found in the gateway of a compound or group of ...

— Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru • Hiram Bingham

... the shore, but it is a noteworthy fact that the signs of old cart-ruts are visible at spring tides, and that an iron hook was recently discovered attached to a submerged rock which had apparently served as a gatepost; besides these proofs of the existence of roads now lying under the waves, it is said that an old order for the repair of Hanois roads is still extant. That Vazon and the Braye du Valle were the sites of ...

— The Forest of Vazon - A Guernsey Legend Of The Eighth Century • Anonymous