expressman
English
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editNoun
editexpressman (plural expressmen)
- (dated or historical, US) A courier, especially by train or stagecoach
- 1938, Heluiz Chandler Washburne, Little Elephant's Christmas:
- Many times each day the bell in the kitchen went ting-a-ling-a-ling and Little Elephant rushed to the door to see who was there. Sometimes it was the expressman who drove up in a truck and dumped a big box or two.
See also
edit- expressman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
edit- “expressman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.