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/pˈoʊstmən/ /pˈoʊsmən/ Listen

noun

Postman n. (pl. postmen)

A post or courier; a letter carrier.

(Eng. Law) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.

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"Postman" Quotes from Famous Books

... joke, especially if you are waiting for letters. I know perfectly well I can't hear from you and Jack for an age, and yet I watch for the postman three times a day, as a hungry man waits ...

— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little

... Whittlestaff was strolling very slowly up and down the long walk at his country seat in Hampshire, thinking of the contents of a letter which he held crushed up within his trousers' pocket. He always breakfasted exactly at nine, and the letters were supposed to be brought to him at a quarter past. The postman was really due at his hall-door at a quarter before nine; but though he had lived in the same house for above fifteen years, and though he was a man very anxious to get his letters, he had never yet learned the truth about them. He was satisfied in his ignorance with ...

— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope

... read to them one of Mr. John Bright's speeches. The Squire did not exactly know, or care to know, who Mr. John Bright might be, but he gathered enough from Fat Jack's guttural elocution to cause uneasiness. He declared that if ever the postman brought such a thing into the village again he would never allow a letter to be delivered on his estate. But with all this bluster, the common people knew that their landlord wished them well, and they were ready to do ...

— The Romance of the Coast • James Runciman

... was gazing in surprise on a letter which the postman had just pushed in at the little window. The superscription was in the hand-writing of his son, but the post-mark bore the name ...

— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

... every one reads, also writes. There are few streets where the callous postman does not occasionally render some doorstep desolate by the delivery of a rejected manuscript. Fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind, and the first steps in the career of a successful man of letters are always interesting. You remember how Franklin slyly dropped his first contribution through ...

— Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) - Authors and Journalists • Various

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