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mailing tube

American  

noun

  1. an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.


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They built it using parts such as a SkyWalker X8 mini airplane with an Ardupilot navigation, a Quantum RTR Bomb System, a mailing tube and other 3D printed parts.

From Forbes • Dec. 17, 2012

Made like a mailing tube of resin-filled paper, it is hard, stiff but not brittle, so light a man can carry 70 feet of the three-inch size under one arm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before he left the building the letter had been posted to his mother through the pneumatic mailing tube that opened in Mr. Denton's office.

From For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store by Sheldon, Lurana W.

He found a mailing chute, and popped the mailing tube down the slot as if he were glad to be rid of it.

From Bear Trap by Nourse, Alan Edward

In this case the test tube was plugged with cotton and inserted in a wooden mailing tube to exclude the light.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.

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