| 单词 | letter carrier |
| 释义 | > as lemmasletter carrier letter carrier n. now chiefly North American a person employed to carry or deliver letters, either as a private messenger or a public official; a postman. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > person letter bearera1400 breveterc1440 post1507 letter carrier1552 post boy1588 ordinary1592 packet carrier1606 postie1611 woman-posta1616 postwoman1683 letterman1707 postman1758 packeteer1784 letter boy1794 carrier1798 delivery officer1839 post-girl1850 mailman1881 packeter1893 postlady1975 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Letter carier, ambulus, libellio, tabellarius. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xliiii. 1199 The chiefe governour..craftily suborned a fellow for the nones in guise and shew of a letter-carrier, and received from him letters. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 2 Aug. (1970) II. 146 Met with a Letter-Carrier of Cambrige. 1734 London Evening-Post 26 Dec. 1/1 His Holiness has had time to publish an Edict, forbidding all Persons employ'd in the Post-Office to deliver any Letters but to the Letter-Carriers. 1772 B. Franklin Let. 2 Dec. in Papers (1975) XIX. 416 I suspect the Letter Carrier might be corrupted. 1829 Times 2 Nov. 4/2 The letter-carrier knocks at my door at 12 in the day with the General Post delivery. 1887 U.S. Mail Mar. 60/2 The letter carriers are hard at it again in their efforts to have their hours of labor reduced to eight hours per day. 1973 P. G. Wodehouse Bachelors Anonymous ix. 123 ‘You're American, aren't you?’ said Amelia Bingham. ‘I thought so. It was your saying “letter-carrier” instead of postman.’ 2005 J. Fudge in C. J. Cranford et al. Self-employed Workers Organize ii. 60 Rural route couriers perform many of the same tasks as the letter carriers who sort and deliver mail throughout urban Canada. < as lemmas |
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