Definition of "postrider" []

• One who rides over a postroad to carry the mails. (noun)

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• "All right, Mr. Clarke, I've got to have a postrider to carry a very important message to Dover, Delaware, to get a man back here from Dover by nine o'clock tomorrow morning."
• "Yes, yes, it's Rodney -- Rodney and the postrider -- they're coming!"
• "Now the postrider was to the people of Revolutionary days what the telegraph or the telephone is to us today."