Someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman).

synoniem: postillion.

Roget 268: traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter.    tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator^†, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling^†; vagrant, scatterling^†, landloper^†, waifs and estrays^†, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab^†, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly^†; globegirdler^†, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [Austral.]; trecker^†, trekker, zingano^†, zingaro^†.    runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel^†, comet.    pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman.    rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker.    driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy^†, carter, wagoner, drayman^†; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier^†, vetturino^†, condottiere^†; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah^†, gari-wala^†, hackman, syce^†, truckman^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 694: director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller.    superintendent, supervisor, straw boss; intendant; overseer, overlooker^†; supercargo^†, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile^†; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master etc. 745; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman^†, precentor^†, bellwether, agitator; caporal^†, choregus^†, collector, file leader, flugelman^†, linkboy^†.    guiding star etc. (guidance) 693; adviser etc. 695; guide etc. (information) 527; pilot; helmsman; steersman, steermate^†; wire-puller.    driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion, vetturino^†, muleteer, arriero^†, teamster; whipper in.    head, head man, head center, boss; principal, president, speaker; chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson; captain etc. (master) 745; superior; mayor etc. (civil authority) 745; vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch^†.    officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist^†, bureaucrat; man in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in authority etc. 745.    statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist^†, statemonger^†; Minos, Draco; arbiter etc. (judge) 967; boss [U.S.], political dictator.    board etc. (council) 696.    secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar etc. (deputy) 759; steward, factor; agent etc. 758; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve^†; factotum, major-domo^†, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: postiljon
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