With the sense ‘characterized by the haste or speed of a courier’, as †post business, †post expedition, †post-pace, †post speed.

With the sense ‘characterized by the haste or speed of a courier’, as †post business, †post expedition, †post-pace, †post speed.

With defining word. the extreme pace of which a horse is capable; also used adv. = ‘at full gallop’; also figurative.

transferred and figurative.

(From the adverb.) A rapid gallop; a ride at this pace. Also transferred and figurative.

The action or fact of spanking or moving along rapidly and sharply.

dialect, colloquial, U.S., Australian, and New Zealand. A spurt at racing, a short brisk spin; a ‘spell’ of work. big licks = hard work. Also…

slang. A ‘cracking’ or ‘rattling’ pace.