The Collaborative International Dictionary
Posthouse \Post"house`\, n.
A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.
A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A house established for the convenience of the post, a stable or inn where relays of horses can be obtained. 2 (context obsolete English) A building for distributing mail; a post office.
Usage examples of "posthouse".
Before we knew it we had climbed the path and reached the posthouse of At-Davan.
It was warm as toast in the small quarters of the posthouse where a red-hot stove blazed with dry heat.
This was indeed the postman, running for his life from the frost which in the course of the long journey from the last posthouse must have scored off considerably against him.
In Irkutsk he gets hold of a keg of cheap vodka which he sells to the posthouse clerks or cabmen, buys new calendars for the same purpose, or takes a batch of picture prints to peddle for a commission.
But his own wretched lot is little improved by the good he accomplishes, and if he manages to survive the rigours of the winter in his scanty apparel, this is to be ascribed mainly and perhaps exclusively to vodka of which he drinks enormous quantities at every posthouse, and without any visible consequences.
Mikhailo Ivanovich sat at the table in the posthouse reception room with nothing on save his underclothes.
Across him, surprisingly relaxed, slumped Vassili Spiridonovich Kruglikov, the posthouse clerk.
For I would have liked to put on canvas the various emotions I saw playing in the candlelight on the now quite striking face of the At-Davan posthouse clerk.
And so thick was the air with the smarting memory of the deep humiliation he must have suffered that even Mikhailo Ivanovich now gazing at the little posthouse clerk with wide-open, half-bewildered eyes dared not break this silence.
He glared round the posthouse, straightened up and brought his fist down on the table with a furious scowl.
I betook myself thither, in the hopes of hiring a trap to convey me to the posthouse, but I was disappointed.
Place and the Posthouse once in a while when he was home on leave, and he recalled that a good number of the men at the bars were recent veterans with some stories to tell, and some, like him, were in uniform and never had to buy a drink.
The Posthouse was on the other side of Courthouse Square, and Keith crossed the street and began walking through the park.
Abandoning his efforts to locate a hackney, Dragoner set out on foot from the posthouse on the outskirts of the city, which was the only accommodation he had been able to find.
Its driver was Brigadier Moon who had hired the carriage from the posthouse stables just outside the city.