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Homing :: Homing (a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

Tranter :: Tranter (n.) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.

Porter :: Porter (n.) A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire..

Porterage :: Porterage (n.) The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.

Dog :: Dog (n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool..

Bearer :: Bearer (n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant..

Bail :: Bail (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc..

Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper..

Mineralogist :: Mineralogist (n.) A carrier shell (Phorus).

Postman :: Postman (n.) A post or courier; a letter carrier.

Homer :: Homer (n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

Waybill :: Waybill (n.) A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading..

Carrier :: Carrier (n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster..

Post :: Post (n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier..

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier..

Carrier :: Carrier (n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

Driver :: Driver (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier..

Carrier :: Carrier (n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger..

Post :: Post (n.) A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman..

Coolie :: Coolie (n.) An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country..

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