express rider
Swift horse carrier
An express rider is a messenger who travels on horseback to deliver mail, documents, or urgent communications as quickly as possible.
The term evokes the Pony Express and similar 19th-century relay systems where riders covered vast distances at speed: The express rider changed horses at the station and rode on through the night.
- ponyCompact equine breed
- gallopSwiftest quadruped gait
- courierDelivery person or service
- dispatchSend with speed
- mail routeCarrier's assigned territory
mailbag · leather satchel · dusty · hooves · relay · station · saddle · urgent · messenger · frontier · Wild West · trail · westward · open plains · telegram · speed · horseback · leather
- commutingcommute, morning commute, evening commute, commute time, long commute
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- travelerspassenger, travelers, traveler, tourist, vacationers
- rideshare rolesdriver, passenger, carpooler, carpool driver
technological era of communication
express ridertelegraph operator
Transmits coded wire messages
telephone operator · email · instant message · radio operator
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