| 单词 | distance post |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdistance post distance post n. now chiefly historical a post indicating the distance from the winning post which a horse running in a heat race must have reached when the winner finishes in order to qualify for a subsequent heat. ΚΠ 1731 London Evening-post 17–19 June A Mare got the first Heat very easily; but after she was within the Distance-Post went on the wrong Side of a Post that was between the Distance-Post and the Starting-Post. 1809 Brit. Press 6 Apr. in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1810) XIII. 63 Gibby and Premier..were scarcely able to strike a trot in passing the distance-post. 1870 Blaine's Encycl. Rural Sports (rev. ed.) iii. iv. 371 In coming in on the right of the course, there should be two distance-posts; the first is to be erected two hundred and forty yards from the winning-post; the second a hundred and twenty from it. 1953 Yorks. Evening Post 18 July 8/1 (caption) The dog slipped under the rails as the field passed the distance post. 1979 M. W. Jones Derby ii. 53 The eventual winner Sam glimpsed the leader for the first time only as he reached the distance post. < as lemmas |
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