milepost

English

Etymology

From mile +‎ post.

Pronunciation

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Noun

milepost (plural mileposts)

1. A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places
2. (rail transport) A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line).
   • 1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

     But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.

   • 1960 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 212:

     [...] the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted at a minimum of 49½ m.p.h.

Translations

post on a highway

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Verb

milepost (third-person singular simple present mileposts, present participle mileposting, simple past and past participle mileposted)

1. To place mileposts along (a road, etc.).

See also

• milestone

Further reading

• Railway mileposts on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• polemist, postmile