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Postmaster   /pˈoʊstmˌæstər/  /pˈoʊsmˌæstər/   Listen
noun
Postmaster  n.  
1.
One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
2.
One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.





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"Postmaster" Quotes from Famous Books



... the lady, when the young girl had finished her recital. Upon hearing that she was staying with the postmaster's wife, she nodded, and said with a smile: "Ah! I know her. Adieu! tell no one of our meeting. I hope you will not have long to wait for ...
— Marie • Alexander Pushkin
... by Provost-Marshal Marriere, was fired, and the entire block burned. The Bull's Head Hotel on 44th Street was likewise burned to the ground because its proprietor declined to furnish liquor to the mob. The residences of Provost-Marshal Jenkins and Postmaster Wakeman and two brown-stone dwellings on Lexington Avenue were also destroyed by fire, and several members of the police and marines were stoned to death, and ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer
... Newton's and Johnson's divisions were the principal ones engaged in this contest, which lasted more than an hour; but the Confederates were then forced to fall back inside their main lines. The losses were quite heavy on both sides. On this day General Gresham, since our Postmaster-General, was very badly wounded. During the night Hood abandoned his outer lines, and our troops were advanced. The investment had not been relinquished for ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan
... the neat little post-house—to reach which without a most tremendous round we had to climb up a really precipitous path, so called, over the stones and rocks in front of the inn—new dismay awaited us. The postmaster was a very old man, but of a very different type from our host. He was sorry to disappoint us, but the mail only stopped here for letters—all passengers must begin their journey at—I forget where—leagues off on the other side from ...
— Four Ghost Stories • Mrs. Molesworth
... have to report the case to our president, and, I suppose, to the Postmaster-General, but I sha'n't hurry about either. What they will do, I can't say. Probably you know how far you can keep ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds


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