<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially as a matter of duty or business.</li><li>a person employed to convey official dispatches or to go on other official or special errands: a bank messenger.</li><li>Nautical: a rope or chain made into an endless belt to pull on an anchor cable or to drive machinery from some power source, as a capstan or winch.</li><li>a light line by which a heavier line, as a hawser, can be pulled across a gap between a ship and a pier, a buoy, another ship, etc.</li><li>Oceanography: a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument.</li><li>Archaic: a herald, forerunner, or harbinger.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>courier</li><li>bearer</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to send by messenger.</li></ul>