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Definition of Postrider
1. n. One who rides over a post road to carry the mails.
Definition of Postrider
1. Noun. One who rides over a postroad to carry the mails. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Postrider
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postrider
Literary usage of Postrider
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1890)
"2 Ebenezer Kurd, postrider to Saybrook, Ct., made in the year 1767, by the help
of his wife and children, 500 yards linen and woollen cloth, ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1911)
"... of the paper "were delivered at Wood- bridge in New Jersey, to the postrider,
by James Parker, Secrettary of the General Post Office in America. ..."
3. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1854)
"... that this fellow lately Robbed a mail in Chester County under pretence of
giving a letter to the postrider seized the man & pull'd him of his Horse, ..."
4. History of the United States of America by Henry William Elson (1904)
"Two years later this boy, who never knew a boyhood, was a regular postrider making
daily trips from his village to Boston ..."
5. Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: In the Olden by John Fanning Watson (1857)
"He shows therein, that the same postrider rode through the whole route from city
to city! He says of the pacer, he is no beauty although " so high priced," ..."
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