footpost

Etymology

From foot + post.

footpost means A bedpost at the foot of a bed. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

A bedpost at the foot of a bed.
A messenger who travels on foot.“[…] at which place, between six and seven in the morning, it was shouldered by the Framley footpost messenger, and in due course delivered at the Framley Parsonage […]”