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  • noun Plural form of postrider.

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Examples

  • Hence the long and tedious business of packing, of ordering the great traveling coach and a smaller vehicle for the servants and extra luggage, and of sending postriders ahead with orders to prepare Larkmoor, the small royal manor near Kymil.

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

  • But the letters were carried thirty miles a day by postriders on horseback, and there were never more than three mails a week between even the great towns.

    A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

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