| 单词 | post-yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspost-yard g. With the sense ‘belonging to a postal station or to a posting establishment’, as post hut, †post-shed, post-yard (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > post office letter office1635 post-house1635 post office1659 post hut1753 post-shed1753 P.O.1824 station1845 post1848 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. i. xv. 98 The post huts on the step could not always supply us with a sufficient number of horses. 1812 R. Wilson Private Diary I. 141 We came to the next post-shed, and found all flown, so that we were obliged to proceed with the same horses. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lv. 548 Of bridges, crosses, churches, postyards, new horses. 1957 F. Jonas tr. N. M. Karamzin Lett. Russ. Traveler 327 Nowhere is it so convenient to ride about the country as it is here. You go to a postyard where there are always many carriages. 1995 Boston Globe (Nexis) 14 June 18 The tiny post office (a ‘post hut’, really, where residents crowd around their mailboxes at noon, waiting for letters to be slipped through the slots). < as lemmas |
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