backpost

A pole or post onto the front of which items to be used are attached.

Noun

  1. A pole or post onto the front of which items to be used are attached.
    • The built-up type of rudder, i.e. the rudder produced by shrinking forged arms on to a backpost, is a very nice example of fabrication without welding. - 1949, Steel Processing and Conversion, volume 35, page 588:
    • I know one chair company whose product engineer built a backpost boring machine on which all the boring heads are fixed in position. - 1971, Furniture Production, volume 34, number 235, page 25:

Origin

From back- + post.

Forms

backposts