postrider
See also: post rider
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
postrider (plural postriders)
- One who rides over a postroad to carry the mails.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bancroft to this entry?)
Further reading
- Post riders on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)