"post the coal" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "posts the coal",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posting the coal",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posted the coal",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posted the coal",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "post the coal (third-person singular simple present posts the coal, present participle posting the coal, simple past and past participle posted the coal)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Gambling",
          "orig": "en:Gambling",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Punch/The London Charivari, volume LXXII, page 244:",
          "text": "Upon Jagellon they who post the coal / Back one who stands, by race, head of the Pole.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lay money on a contest."
      ],
      "id": "en-post_the_coal-en-verb-JIECj2D~",
      "links": [
        [
          "gambling",
          "gambling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "lay",
          "lay"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, gambling, slang) To lay money on a contest."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "gambling",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "post the coal"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "posts the coal",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posting the coal",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posted the coal",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "posted the coal",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "post the coal (third-person singular simple present posts the coal, present participle posting the coal, simple past and past participle posted the coal)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Gambling"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Punch/The London Charivari, volume LXXII, page 244:",
          "text": "Upon Jagellon they who post the coal / Back one who stands, by race, head of the Pole.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lay money on a contest."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gambling",
          "gambling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "lay",
          "lay"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, gambling, slang) To lay money on a contest."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "gambling",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "post the coal"
}