The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postboy \Post"boy`\, n.
One who rides post horses; a position; a courier.
A boy who carries letters from the post.
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A male postilion.
Wikipedia
Postboy or Post boy may refer to:
- Postboy (ship), an Australian ship
- Postboy, Ohio, a community in the United States
- Post boy, another name for Postilion
- Boston Post-Boy, an American newspaper
Usage examples of "postboy".
Tom Chist took up his lodgings at a coffee house near to the town hall, and thence he sent by the postboy a letter written by Parson Jones to Master Chillingsworth.
Postboys and bearers and drivers dickered with prospective customers over fares to the next post station.
Two merchants were using it to climb stiffly down from their rented horses while the postboys held the reins.
A glamorous leech, producing nothing except films bush‑shirts fish… in the aftermath of Partition, I see Vishwanath the postboy bicycling towards our two‑storey hillock, vellum envelope in his saddlebag, riding his aged Arjuna Indiabike past a rotting bus‑abandoned although it isn't the monsoon season, because its driver suddenly decided to leave for Pakistan, switched off the engine and departed, leaving a full busload of stranded passengers, hanging off the windows, clinging to the roof‑rack, bulging through the doorway… I can hear their oaths, son‑of‑a‑pig, brother‑of‑a‑jackass.