Definition of messenger Messenger

/mɛˈsʌnʤɚ/ - [mesunjer] - mes•sen•ger

We found 12 definitions of messenger from 6 different sources.

What does messenger mean?

Noun Plural: messengers
messenger - a person who carries a message
		courier
		traveler, traveller a person who changes location
		conveyer, conveyor a person who conveys (carries or transmits); "the conveyer of good tidings"
		dispatch rider a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle)
		herald, trumpeter (formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet"
		bearer a messenger who bears or presents; "a bearer of good tidings"
		errand boy, messenger boy a boy who earns money by running errands
		process-server someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant

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messenger (Noun)
One who brings messages.
messenger (Noun)
A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e. g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
messenger (Noun)
The supporting member of an aerial cable electric power or telephone or data.
messenger (Verb)
To send something by messenger.

messenger (n.)
One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages.
messenger (n.)
One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells.
messenger (n.)
A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable.
messenger (n.)
A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge og the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.

messenger
A large cable-laid rope, used to unmoor or heave up the anchor of a ship, by the aid of the capstan. This is done by binding a part of the messenger to the cable by which the ship rides, in several places, with pliant nippers, and by winding another part of it about the capstan. The messenger has an eye-splice at each end, through which several turns of a strong lashing are passed, forming an endless rope. So that by putting on fresh nippers forward, and taking them off as they are hove aft, the capstan may be kept constantly going, and the cable is walked in without stopping. (See VIOL.) A superior plan is now adopted, in which the messenger, consisting of a pitch chain which has a double and single link alternately, works in iron spurs fastened above the lower rim of the capstan. This avoids the trouble of shifting or fleeting the messenger while heaving in. Again, the cable itself is commonly brought to the capstan.--Light forward the messenger! is the order to pull the slack of it towards the hawse holes, on the slack or opposite side, so as to be ready to fasten upon the cable which is being hove in, as it comes off the manger-roller at the bows.