Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as bank post-bill (which see, under bill).
  • noun A way-bill of the letters despatched from a post-office.

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Examples

  • Anon, I produced my bank post-bill; and Mr. ------ kindly engaged to identify me at the bank, being ready to swear to me, he said, on the strength of my resemblance to my engraved portrait.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Holborn, and sought hither and thither for Grace Church Street, in order to find the American Consul, General Campbell; for I needed his aid to get a bank post-bill cashed.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Anon, I produced my bank post-bill; and Mr. ------ kindly engaged to identify me at the bank, being ready to swear to me, he said, on the strength of my resemblance to my engraved portrait.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Holborn, and sought hither and thither for Grace Church Street, in order to find the American Consul, General Campbell; for I needed his aid to get a bank post-bill cashed.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Breakfast was now over -- a plain and severely frugal one, by the way, it was -- and her husband was about to proceed to Lisnisgola, in order to get the bank post-bill changed, when, from the parlor where they sat, he saw the _Cannie Soogah_ approaching the hall-door, the huge pack, as usual, on his shoulder.

    The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

  • The enclosure alluded to was a bank post-bill for two hundred pounds.

    The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

  • Q Bill, can you gauge in any way what the President has to show for these post-bill signing trips?

    White House.gov Press Office Feed The White House 2010

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