<font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2">Ballot! Twelve definitions, and eleven are fake. As usual, you have a two-point vote and a one-point vote. Please get me your votes and any quips, commentary, or samson post poetry before I wake up next Tuesday the 17th. I often sleep late, but don't let that encourage you to wait til the last minute.<br>
<br><br><br><span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post, n. </span>(English boarding school slang) A delivery of contraband sent by
arrangement to a local "day" boy and secretly carried into school. <br><br><br><span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post, n. </span>A
structural column identified during a building demolition as being
critical to causing a controlled collapse. Most structures will have
several columns that will need to be eliminated with explosives, in
which case the first one to be blown in a sequenced operation will be
designated the <span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post</span>.<br><br><br><span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post</span>, n. Hand-delivery. "To send it <span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post</span>" -- to deliver it oneself. Derivation unknown.<br>
<br></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><br>samson post, n. (Naut.) 1. A strong bitt or post at the bow or stern of a vessel.</font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> 2. A king post for supporting cargo-handling booms on the deck of a ship.</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post, n. </span>A short, sturdy <span class="il">post</span> intended to prevent vehicles from entering a pedestrian-only area.<br><br></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><br>
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<font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post</span>, n. In American football, a special deep <span class="il">post</span>
play, where one wide-receiver runs a short up-the-middle pattern and
the other runs straight up the field, turning in toward the <span class="il">post</span> at about 20 or 30 yards. Named after Paul <span class="il">Samson</span>, head coach of Emporia State University, Emporia KS, from 1904-06, and again in 1908, who developed the play.<br>
<br></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><br><span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post</span>, n. Any of a series of posts, generally 1.5 to 2 meters apart, which hold up a balcony.<br>
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<span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post, n. </span>(sl.) A position teaching art, music, or drama in a school district where they are regarded as dispensable.<br><br></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><br>
<span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post</span>, n. (fr. Basque) An isolated natural spire, tower, or obelisk, esp. one which leans as if it had been a projectile; hoodoo<br></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><br>
</font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><br><span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post</span>, n. (fr. Australian eventing winner Adele <span class="il">Samson</span>)
A special horseriding seat, in which the rider bounces on the saddle
only half as often as with the regular English hunt position.<br><br></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span><span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post, n. A</span> package of hair delivered to a wigmaker via the postal service<span class="HOEnZb"><br>
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</font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><span class="il">samson</span> <span class="il">post</span>, n. A load-bearing vertical member whose removal
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