mailboat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mailboat
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Others are blue-collar communities whose lifeblood depends on fishing, farming and the groceries and fuel delivered by a weekly mailboat that is nowhere to be seen.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2019
In July 1871 Morris and three companions, one of them the Icelandic scholar Eiríkr Magnússon, travelled by Danish mailboat from Edinburgh's Granton harbour to Reykjavík, a four-day journey.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2010
The afternoon passed in preparation of monthly reports scheduled to go on the mailboat expected in that evening.
From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson
Elsie went round by Marseilles, saw the Seraph on board a P. and O. mailboat bound for Bombay and came overland to Rimini.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
It was towards the end of the afternoon when the skipper of the West-coast mailboat, peering through his glasses, made out two palms that rose apparently straight out of the sea.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
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