Definition of "dispatch rider" [dispatch rider]

• A messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "And when the dispatch rider reported to Quintus Servilius Caepio in Tolosa, Quintus Servilius Caepio broke down and wept."
• "It was the misfortune of a dispatch rider carrying a message from Narbo to find the tumbled heaps of looted corpses alongside the road through the forest just to the east of Carcasso."