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Definition of Post road
1. Noun. A road over which mail is carried.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Post Road
Literary usage of Post road
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"James and John at Petersburg, in Virginia aforesaid, on the post-road aforesaid,
and time said sum of money, so sealed and inclosed in ‘said letter so [‘244 ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"... to acquire ex-[57T] elusive rights over any post road ;" and that "no railroad
company operating a poet road of the United Stetes over which interstate ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"8 Ann. that is travelling several stages, and changing horses, upon a post road.
I am inclined to think this was the object of the 42d section ; for it does ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1904)
"*direction of a postmaster-general, duly appointed and qualified, and Ja post-road
established within the United States from Passamaquoddy, in the district ..."
5. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1877)
"The Post- road. The old track along <he bed of the Quarry Ravine. After, years
before, bringing an aqueduct along the northern skirts of Mount Inkerman, ..."
6. Autobiography of Amos Kendall by Amos Kendall, William Stickney (1872)
"True, the government may designate a road and call it a post-road. ... But,
nevertheless, the one is not a post-road until the post travels upon it, ..."
7. Autobiography of Amos Kendall by Amos Kendall, William Stickney (1872)
"True, the government may designate a road and cull it a post-road. So they may
pass an act to raise an army and call it an army. ..."
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