The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expressman \Ex*press"man\ (-man), n.; pl. Expressmen (-men).
A person employed in the express business; also, the driver
of a job wagon.
--W. D. Howells.
Wiktionary
n. A person employed in the express business.
Wikipedia
An expressman (pl. expressmen) refers to anyone who has the duty of packing, managing, and ensuring the delivery of any cargo.
During the 19th century, an expressman was someone whose responsibility it was to ensure the safe delivery of a train's gold or currency, which was secured in the " express car". This job included guarding the safe or other strongboxes or coffers against outlaws, and memorizing the safe's combination until delivery.
Usage examples of "expressman".
They watched the expressman deliver a great load of boxes and packages.
The expressman was there, hard at work,--a plain man of fifty, with a simple, honest, goodnatured face, and a breezy, practical heartiness in his general style.
Moreover, it distressed me on account of the old expressman, who, I was afraid, might notice it.
Presently, having got things arranged to his satisfaction, the expressman got some wood and made up a tremendous fire in his stove.
We must give our checks to the expressman, and have our luggage carted over to the Grand Central Depot.
He inquired of one where he could find an expressman and was referred to a mild man absorbing a bad cigar.
The expressman bent over it and began to wipe the water away with a clean rag.
He jumped from the bottom step, avoided the entangled actor and rushed to the assistance of the expressman, who was now rolling on the platfosm, locked in a tussle with Bascom.
One of the other actors was offering the expressman a bandanna for his bloody nose.
Ken got an expressman to haul his trunk to the address on Spring Street.
Nanny finally jumped on the trunks, snapped them shut, locked them and watched the expressman carry them down and out into his waiting dray.
One of the most frequent and painful sights during those last two days was that of a wrathful expressman, glaring in impotent rage while an enterprising damsel opened her trunk on the front porch to take out or put in one or several of her various possessions which, until that moment, had been completely forgotten.
Captain Scraggs thereupon dismissed the expressman, and all three partners gathered around the dining-room table, upon which the boxes rested.
The last expressman bearing a letter addressed to Clinch had ridden out in August, only to fall not far from Fort Brooke: shot, scalped, and disemboweled, he was.
Westerner was thus storming, an expressman came with the little package containing the ring and the trinkets which Badger had given to Winnie.