A person running a service of messenger pigeons; specifically a person running such a service established in the mid 19th cent. to transmit news of the Stock Exchange between Paris and London.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
Definition of pigeon man in US English:
pigeon man
noun
A person running a service of messenger pigeons; specifically a person running such a service established in the mid 19th cent. to transmit news of the Stock Exchange between Paris and London.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.