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post-rider

post-rider is the alternative form of postrider.

Meaning of postrider

Noun

postrider (plural postriders)

  1. One who rides over a postroad to carry the mails.
    • Six persons were chosen as post-riders, to give due notice to the country towns of any attempt to land the tea by force1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC

Forms of post-rider

pluralpost-riders

Questions about post-rider

What is post-rider the alternative form of?
Post-rider is the alternative form of postrider.

Words near post-rider in the dictionary

  1. post-resurrectional
  2. post-retinoid sexual dysfunction
  3. post-retrofit
  4. post-revolution
  5. post-revolutionary
  6. post-rider
  7. post-riders
  8. post-road
  9. post-rock
  10. post-Roe
  11. post-romantic

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