postmen

Noun

postman (plural postmen)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
   • The total of their members amounts to 342,723 for 1875. Among these number … 6,968 male and sixty-three female postmen, imperial railway, telegraph, and post officials, railway workmen, dependent boatmen, waiters, &c.; …1876–1877, Benjamin Homans (ed.), The Banker's Magazine and Statistical Register. Volume thirty-first, or, Volume eleventh of the third Series. From July, 1876, to June, 1877, inclusive, p. 283

   Synonyms:

   mailman, mail carrier, letter carrier, postal carrier, mailperson, postperson

2. (England, historical) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sat, the other of the two being the tubman.
   • Postman of the Court of Exchequer.1835, James Whishaw, A Synopsis of the Members of the English Bar

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