postrider
See also: post rider
English
Alternative forms
Noun
postrider (plural postriders)
- One who rides over a postroad to carry the mails.
- 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
- Six persons were chosen as post-riders, to give due notice to the country towns of any attempt to land the tea by force
Further reading
Post riders on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “postrider”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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