postrider

See also: post rider

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

post + rider

Noun

postrider (plural postriders)

  1. One who rides over a postroad to carry the mails.
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Further reading

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for postrider in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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