Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
distance post
(dis|tance post)
noun
North American
a post placed at a specified distance before the finishing post on a racecourse, which a horse must have passed when the winner finishes in order to qualify for a subsequent heat.
More words in this category
back straight
bookmaker
circuit
doll
2
grandstand finish
handicap
hobday
home straight
Irish Sweepstake
nap
3
neck
post
1
racecard
stall
Standardbred
starter
starting price
track
1
Nearby Words
dissonant
dissuade
dissyllable
dissymmetry
dist. atty.
distaff
distal
distance
distance learning
distance post
distance runner
distant
distant early warning
distant signal
distantiate
distantly
distaste
distasteful
distemper
1