postilion

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He helped stabilize a postilion of need as a platoon designated hitter.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023

It weighs four tonnes and is pulled at walking pace by eight grey horses, with a mounted rider or postilion for each pair.

From BBC • May 4, 2023

The postilion who was riding the horse sprawled upon the road.

From Time Magazine Archive

Don't disturb yourself, monsieur," grumbled the postilion, who had now got one of his horses on its legs; "'tis nothing!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

"Drive on, sir," said Miss Dinah to the postilion, "and pull up at the stone cross."

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James