post-cartn.
/ˈpəʊs(t)kɑːt/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌkɑrt/ Now chiefly historical.
A cart (formerly horse-drawn) for the carriage of mail.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > vehicle or vessel > road vehicle
post-caroche1627
post-coach1636
post calash1703
post-carriage1720
post-stage1738
mail-cart1767
Royal Mail?1780
mail coach1785
mail stage1792
mail carriage1810
post-equipage1813
post vehicle1815
mail wagon1821
post-cart1826
mail-van1909
mail truck1921
postbus1957
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for local mail
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1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 3 Here is the post-cart coming up the road at its most respectable rumble.
1857 Cape Monthly Mag. 1 374 Away like a flash of lightning it shoots. So merrily goes the post-cart.
1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums 151 Jamie was to..come on to Thrums from Tilliedrum in the post-cart.
1937 Dict. National Biogr. 1922–30 215/1 After the war, he drove a post-cart between Salisbury and Kimberley.
1974 A. A. Telford in Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. X. 572/1 Passengers were sometimes carried in post-carts, but a journey in one of these fast and dangerously driven vehicles was a perilous undertaking.
2004 Independent (Nexis) 19 July Employees stride down broad corridors clutching armfuls of toys, as a remote-controlled post cart delivers the morning's mail.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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