Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who rides post; a mounted mail-carrier.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who rides over a post road to carry the mails.
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- noun One who rides over a postroad to carry the
mails .
Etymologies
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Examples
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All right, Mr. Clarke, I've got to have a postrider to carry a very important message to Dover, Delaware, to get a man back here from Dover by nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
Caesar Rodney's Ride Henry Fisk Carlton
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Yes, yes, it's Rodney -- Rodney and the postrider -- they're coming!
Caesar Rodney's Ride Henry Fisk Carlton
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Now the postrider was to the people of Revolutionary days what the telegraph or the telephone is to us today.
Caesar Rodney's Ride Henry Fisk Carlton
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Write him a letter -- send it by the postrider -- urge upon him the enormous importance of his getting here by tomorrow morning.
Caesar Rodney's Ride Henry Fisk Carlton
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And so out into the July night rode Caesar Rodney and the postrider, bound for Philadelphia eighty miles away -- an hour -- two hours -- past the first remount station -- it is nearing eleven o'clock. [_sound of horses 'hoofs and thunder_]
Caesar Rodney's Ride Henry Fisk Carlton
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Wednesday, and Friday a postrider left New York city for Philadelphia.
A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892
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To give them their full effect, we should imagine that these letters have this moment been brought to town by the splashed and way - worn postrider, or perhaps by an orderly dragoon, who has ridden in a perilous hurry to deliver his despatches.
A Book of Autographs Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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