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Etymology

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rudder +‎ post

Noun

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rudderpost (plural rudderposts)

  1. (nautical) The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rudderpost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)