"letter corporal" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1861, M Beverley, The Moor Cottage, page 362",
          "text": "‘It will soon go off; pray finish your writing. I met the letter Corporal not far off, he will be here almost immediately.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1867, Private JB, letter, The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, Fifth series, vol. XIII",
          "text": "I had but just laid down my Bible, when in came the ‘letter corporal,’ saying, ‘Does B— stop here?’ having your letter in his hand."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, Edward Dyne Fenton, Military Men I Have Met",
          "text": "It was then dropped with much solemnity into the letter-box, so as to be ready for the letter-corporal at early post time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, Mrs De Courcy Laffan, Dreams Made Verity, chapter heading",
          "text": "The letter-corporal’s blunder."
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        "A corporal with responsibility for carrying or delivering letters for a given regiment etc."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) A corporal with responsibility for carrying or delivering letters for a given regiment etc."
      ],
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        "archaic"
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  "word": "letter corporal"
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        {
          "ref": "1861, M Beverley, The Moor Cottage, page 362",
          "text": "‘It will soon go off; pray finish your writing. I met the letter Corporal not far off, he will be here almost immediately.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1867, Private JB, letter, The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, Fifth series, vol. XIII",
          "text": "I had but just laid down my Bible, when in came the ‘letter corporal,’ saying, ‘Does B— stop here?’ having your letter in his hand."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, Edward Dyne Fenton, Military Men I Have Met",
          "text": "It was then dropped with much solemnity into the letter-box, so as to be ready for the letter-corporal at early post time.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1910, Mrs De Courcy Laffan, Dreams Made Verity, chapter heading",
          "text": "The letter-corporal’s blunder."
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        "A corporal with responsibility for carrying or delivering letters for a given regiment etc."
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        "(now rare) A corporal with responsibility for carrying or delivering letters for a given regiment etc."
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  "word": "letter corporal"
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