[f. LAMP sb. + POST.] A post, usually of iron, used to support a street-lamp. Sometimes with allusion to its use during the French Revolution for hanging a victim of popular fury.
1790. Roy, in Phil. Trans., LXXX. 164. The same socket that fitted the top of the flag-staff, or lamp-post, could be applied to the tripod.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., Wks. V. 109. This sort of discourse does well enough with the lamp-post for its second.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. v. He contrived a back to his wooden stool by placing it against the lamp-post.
1880. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, 295. A platform garnished by some lamp-posts.
