Building. Obs. [f. FRANK a.2 + POST sb.] ? An angle-post in a frame building.

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1587.  Harrison, England, II. xii. (1877), I. 233. In the open champagne countrie they are inforced for want of stuffe to use no studs at all, but onlie franke posts, raisins, beames, prickeposts … wherevnto they fasten their splints or radels, and then cast it ouer with thicke claie to keepe out the wind.

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