"handpost" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "hand + post",
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          "ref": "1897, Thomas Hardy, The Grave by the Handpost",
          "text": "Long Ash Lane cut athwart them, right and left; and they saw that at the junction of the four ways, under the handpost, a grave was dug, into which, as the choir drew nigh, a corpse had just been thrown by the four Sidlinch men employed for the purpose.",
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        "A kind of signpost indicating what lies in various directions."
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          "signpost",
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          "direction",
          "direction"
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  "etymology_text": "hand + post",
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        "A kind of signpost indicating what lies in various directions."
      ],
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          "direction",
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