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Definition of Postriders
1. postrider [n] - See also: postrider
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postriders
Literary usage of Postriders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Book of World Law: A Compilation of the International Conventions by Raymond Landon Bridgman (1911)
"... there was a similar arrangement. Queen Elizabeth, in 1581, appointed the first
chief postmaster of England. In 1632 the line of postriders to ..."
2. The First Book of World Law: A Compilation of the International Conventions by Raymond Landon Bridgman, World Peace Foundation (1911)
"... there was a similar arrangement. Queen Elizabeth, in 1581, appointed the first
chief postmaster of England. In 1632 the line of postriders to ..."
3. The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers, and an by Isaiah Thomas (1874)
"... to postriders not to circulate The New York Gazette; but it does not appear
that the comptroller of the post office did anything more, at that time, ..."
4. Annals of Brattleboro, 1681-1895 by Mary Rogers Cabot (1921)
"postriders were appointed, the rider from Bennington to Brattleboro being ...
Other postriders, it seems, were employed to ride through certain circuits to ..."
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