mailboat
noun
mail boat
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a variation of
mailboat.
Example Sentences
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Captain Tracy Batteese shuttles people and goods to and from Isle au Haut on the mail boat, which also functions as the island’s de facto ambulance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Portpatrick, on the Galloway coast, was once a busy mail boat route to Donaghadee, in County Down.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2021
“The mail boat needed to be modernized when Treena took over,” Mr. Quinn said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
The coronavirus also forced a change to the mail boat itself.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
To-day she serves as a mail boat running between Santa Cruz and St. Thomas, and, it is said, can make forty leagues, with a fair wind, as quick as any steamer on the coast.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou
