mailboat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mailboat
Example Sentences
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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
—Well, he's going off by the mailboat, says Joe, tonight.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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 Thomson, Charles Goff
You could find a West-coast mailboat goin' home if you went down the creek in the launch.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
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