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dispatch rider

noun

a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Historical Examples of dispatch rider

  • In a few minutes I could see he was one of our men—evidently a dispatch-rider.

    How I Filmed the War

    Lieut. Geoffrey H. Malins

  • There was a dispatch-rider shot a little distance up the road.

    The Wonder of War on Land

    Francis Rolt-Wheeler

  • It turned out to be a dispatch-rider, mounted on a motor-bicycle, who with a hoot of his horn roared westward through the village.

    Michael

    E. F. Benson

  • Swiftly and silently along the moonlit road sped the dispatch-rider.

  • Tom Slade, dispatch-rider, knew well enough what kamerad meant.