† cross-postn.
Obsolete.
The post which carried letters on cross-country routes.
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1720 London Gaz. 16 Apr. General Post-Office, London, April 12, 1720..His Majesty's Attorney-General, having granted to Ralph Allen..a Farm of all the Bye-Way or Cross-Road Letters throughout England.]
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. iv. 160 All the Tramontanes that come by the cross Post.
1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope 146 Allen, who had made a large fortune by farming the cross~posts.
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