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mail car
noun
- a railroad car for carrying mail.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mail car1
First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences
It's hard enough on myself to be down ready for the mail-car in the morning, sorting letters in the half-dark.
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She would see me into the mail-car—she said so herself—and then that mail-clerk relative of hers would carry me to Ogden.
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The blind baggage is the car between the mail car and the engine.
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Twenty miles to the southeast stood a train with a killed engine, hysterical passengers and a looted express and mail car.
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And gathering up the handful of tools, he climbed back over the coal and disappeared through the door of the mail car.
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