post-house

post ("mail"; "network of horse couriers") + house

post-house (plural post-houses)

1. Alternative form of posthouse
   • 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter XI, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 219:

     Late on the evening of their firſt days journey they arrived at a ſmall poſt-houſe, where travellers ſeldom remain longer than while they change horſes; […]

   • 1824, Edward Hibbet, Narrative of a Journey from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Ayres in July and August, 1821:

     Whenever we came to a post-house, the troop of horses took to the yard instinctively, and each man seized a lassu and caught his own.

   • 1883, James Nasmyth, James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography‎^[1], Harper & Brothers:

     His duty was to carry me to the next post-house, and there leave me to be carried forward by another similar conveyance.

• housepost, house-tops, housetops, pot-houses, pothouses, house tops