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  • noun historical, India A messenger, especially one who delivers a personal message.

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Examples

  • I believe that the Court of Directors, and those to whom those proceedings shall be made known, will think differently of this action of Mr. Francis: that Nundcomar was guilty of great insolence and disrespect in the demand which he made of Mr. Francis; and that it was not a duty belonging to the office of a councillor of this state to make himself the carrier of a letter, which would have been much more properly committed to the hands of a peon or hircarra, or delivered by the writer of it to the secretary himself.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

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