postrider

American  

[pohst-rahy-der] / ˈpoʊstˌraɪ dər /

noun

1. (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.

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postrider British  

/ ˈpəʊstˌraɪdə /

noun

1. (formerly) a person who delivered post on horseback

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Etymology

Origin of postrider

First recorded in 1695–1705; post ³ + rider

Example Sentences

Every few pages of his “crime story,” Sjon digresses to a new tale with new players, like a postrider burning through horses.

From New York Times

So McKeen hurried to the postrider's stable.

From Project Gutenberg

Now the postrider was to the people of Revolutionary days what the telegraph or the telephone is to us today.

From Project Gutenberg

Write him a letter—send it by the postrider—urge upon him the enormous importance of his getting here by tomorrow morning.

From Project Gutenberg

To give them their full effect, we should imagine that these letters have this moment been brought to town by the splashed and way- worn postrider, or perhaps by an orderly dragoon, who has ridden in a perilous hurry to deliver his despatches.

From Project Gutenberg