milepost definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: stone post at side of a road to show distances [syn: milestone, milepost]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1768 1. a post indicating the distance in miles from or to a given point; also a post placed a mile from a similar post 2. milestone 2

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a post one mile from the finishing-post of a race etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Milepost Mile"post`, n. A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

Moby Thesaurus

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