Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A boy who rides post; a boy or man who carries mail; the driver of a post-chaise; a postilion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who rides post horses; a position; a courier.
- n. A boy who carries letters from the post.
Examples
“The SKYDSGUT, or so-called postboy, for the next stage of the journey, was a full-grown man of considerable weight.”
“There was no mail coach -- no driver in scarlet -- no mail guard -- no passengers, but only a ramshackle iron mail cart -- a "postboy" as driver and carrying no arms.”
“Afterward, he blamed it on transportation limits, the postboy, the fact that the newspapers were three or four days old by the time he read them over toast and coffee.”
“The postboy looked her up and down, noting that she was pretty, and about his own age.”
“As I said, the big thing people forget about Nigella is that she's a big famous glamorous TV star from a very well-connected, rich and high-profile family - I sincerely doubt that a Nigella lookalike whose dad was a postman and who worked in a shop would come within light years of landing a Saatchi and Saatchi postboy.”
“These mail-wagons were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, the other for the traveller.”
“Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered installments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of something to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not.”
“The postboy was driving briskly through the open streets, and past the handsome and well – lighted shops that intervene between the outskirts of the town and the Old Royal Hotel, before Mr. Pickwick had begun to consider the very difficult and delicate nature of the commission which had carried him thither.”
“‘This way, gentlemen; don’t trouble yourselves about the postboy now, sir.”
“Expatiating upon this learned and remarkable theory, and citing many curious statistical and other facts in its support, Sam Weller beguiled the time until they reached Dunchurch, where a dry postboy and fresh horses were procured; the next stage was Daventry, and the next Towcester; and at the end of each stage it rained harder than it had done at the beginning.”
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