messenger.
One who brings messages.
Meaning & usage
One who brings messages.
The secretary bird.
The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
An instant messenger program.
A forerunner or harbinger.
a messenger of doom
A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
A messenger-at-arms.
A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager. Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”). For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).
To send something by messenger.
I'll messenger over the signed documents.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager. Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”). For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).
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