1617 J. Taylor in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 126 His post-like legs were answerable to the rest of the great frame which they supported.

1854 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 15 Oct. 1 Marshall Ney said of the Russian soldier..he was so fixed, so post-like in his tenacious hold of his position.

1927 Jrnl. Paleontol. 1 112 At each end there is a postlike projection divided on top into two almost horizontal projections.

1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 109/1 One was transfixed by the easy motion of his arms, the postlike rigidity of his great body, and the soaring of his huge hands, which reduced his drumsticks to pencils.

2002 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. 19 By sight and feel, he inspects the round, postlike billets of wood, which have been dried in a kiln for 30 to 35 days.