impost

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise.

   “’Tis a Land-tax, vvhich he’s too poor to pay; / You, therefore muſt ſome other Impoſt lay.”

2. isim The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race; the handicap.
3. isim The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch.

   “The outer circle [of Stonehenge] has been formed by a combination of two uprights and an impost; yet each combination of these three stones is detached, and without any connection with the rest, except that of coinciding in the form of a circle.”