post time

noun

, Horse Racing.

1. the time at which the entries in a race are required to be at the starting post.

Word History and Origins

Origin of post time¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Paul always enjoyed it when the work got faster, towards post-time, and all the men united in labour.

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At the approach of post time, I am nearly ill with anticipation, and afterwards fall headlong into deepest melancholy.

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First of all, he made excuse on excuse for having disturbed the bankers at their post time.

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When post-time came on the morning of the twenty-seventh, no letter arrived from Saturnin Siadoux.

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He only read one newspaper, innocent of leaders, and was free from that periodicity of sensations which we call post-time.

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