postrider

See also: post rider

English

Alternative forms

• post rider
• post-rider

Etymology

post +‎ rider

Noun

postrider (plural postriders)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• portsider, preditors