post time

nounHorse Racing.

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

Origin of post time

First recorded in1835–45

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Paul always enjoyed it when the work got faster, towards post-time, and all the men united in labour.
Sons and Lovers | David Herbert Lawrence
At the approach of post time, I am nearly ill with anticipation, and afterwards fall headlong into deepest melancholy.
The Wings of Icarus | Laurence Alma Tadema
First of all, he made excuse on excuse for having disturbed the bankers at their post time.
Messengers of Evil | Pierre Souvestre
When post-time came on the morning of the twenty-seventh, no letter arrived from Saturnin Siadoux.
My Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 2) | Wilkie Collins
He only read one newspaper, innocent of leaders, and was free from that periodicity of sensations which we call post-time.
Adam Bede | George Eliot

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