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ˈpost-ˌrunner
†a. A ‘runner’ who acts as a post: see post n.2 2. Obs.
b. One who bears messages or transports the post or mail along a certain route on foot; a post-carrier, foot-post.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 403 Thir post⁓rinneris beginis to contemne the command. 1864Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1866) 336 Each village in turn received a handful of chupatties or bannocks, by the hands of the post-runners, with orders to bake others, and pass them on to the next village. 1879Stevenson Trav. Cevennes 39 A cavalcade of stride-legged ladies and a pair of post-runners. |