post horse

1. 1.

   a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers

   Synonymspost-horseposter

   Broaderhorse

Questions about post horse

What does post horse mean?

post horse means "a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers".

What is another word for post horse?

Close synonyms include post-horse, poster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is post horse a common word?

post horse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.