post-horse
(ˈpəʊsthɔːs)
A horse kept at a post-house or inn for the use of post-riders, or for hire for the conveyance of travellers.
| 1527 Gardiner in Pocock Rec. Ref. I. 76 Now unless post-horse serve us we cannot tell how to do. 1533 Tuke Let. to Cromwell in St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 405 Writinges, sent for provision of post horses. 1575 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 369 Neither the horses of ye Chancellor or Schollers.., nor of their servaunts,..should be taken for post horses. 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. 61 In England.., Post-horses are established at every ten miles or thereabouts, which they ride a false gallop after some ten miles an hower. a 1627 Hayward Edw. VI (1630) 100 That he intended to fly to Iernsey and Wales and laid posthorses, and men, and a boat to that purpose. 1814 Scott Wav. lxiii, From Edinburgh to Perth he took post-horses. 1835 Marryat Olla Podr. iv, With post-horses and postilions we posted post haste to Brussels. |