To post or station (a body of soldiers, etc.); to station (post-horses) along a route. Also, to beset (a place) with soldiers. Obsolete.

Scottish. To fix, post, place; chiefly, to station (oneself, troops), to place (cannon) in position.

transitive. To assign a post, position or place to (a person, troops, ships, etc.); to post to or place in a station. Also figurative.

transitive. To position, station (a person).