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
Girls, he understood, often had a partiality for mailboat officers who were generally men of prepossessing appearance and manners.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
One rather amusing fellow was very much of the kind you’d meet at a sporting club, and the other had the stamp of a navy or first-class mailboat man.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
The Bayne Liner was no mailboat; I expected that my letters had been awaiting me for some time at the port; and the money could have been cabled nearly a month before this date.
From Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers by Foster, W. Bertram
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