Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who posts bills; a bill-poster.
  • noun A broad-side or placard intended for pasting or nailing upon a post or wall in some public place; an advertisement.
  • noun One who posts; or travels as post; one who travels expeditiously.
  • noun A post-horse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.
  • noun A post horse.
  • noun A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.
  • noun One who posts bills; a billposter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A post-horse
  • noun archaic A swift traveler
  • noun One who posts a message.
  • noun One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.
  • noun dated A posthorse.
  • noun An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
  • noun A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
  • noun ice hockey, slang A shot which only hits a goal post without going in

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
  • noun a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers
  • noun someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

from to post (travel, dispatch) + -er

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

from to post (placcard, publish) + -er

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