Home › Words › F › fencepostfencepostfencepost means A post which helps hold up a fence.EtymologyFrom fence + post.nounA post which helps hold up a fence.e.g.“Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us.” — 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.fencepole 78% match — A usually wooden pole forming part of a fence. vs fencepost →barpost 72% match — A post sunk in the ground to hold the bars closing a passage into a field. vs fencepost →backpost 65% match — A pole or post onto the front of which items to be used are attached. vs fencepost →bedpost 64% match — Any of the four upright supports of a bedstead. vs fencepost →fencelet 63% match — A little fence (barrier). vs fencepost →paling 60% match — A pointed stick used to make a fence. vs fencepost →fingerpost 59% match — A board that shows the direction (and often distance) to a named place; especially one of several attached to a milepost. vs fencepost →crownpost 59% match — A king post. vs fencepost →