seatpost

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: seatposts

A seatpost is the tube that holds the seat at the right height. Adjust the seatpost.

Every one has a minimum insertion line, and going above it snaps the frame eventually. A seatpost that has seized in an aluminium frame is one of the hardest jobs in cycle repair.

Definitions of seatpost

1nounseatpostThe tube that holds the seat at the right height.B2
“The seatpost slipped down two inches every ride.”

seatpost is a part.

Where it comes from

seat post comes from seat + post.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Cycling

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seatpost in the wild

A bicycle seatpost, seatpin, saddlepole, saddle pillar, or saddle pin is a tube that extends upwards from the bicycle frame to the saddle.
Seatpost
Similar quick-release mechanisms are also used to operate seatpost clamps, and the collapsing stem of folding bicycles and kick scooters.
Quick release skewer
On the road he has been disqualified several times for using equipment (handlebars, seatpost) that UCI has declared illegal.
Jan-Willem van Schip
Alternatively, some rear fenders can be fitted to the seatpost.
Bicycle fender

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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