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
"There's nothing that quite fits the thing here, and from what the West-coast mailboat men told me, craw-craw must be different," he said.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
For the mailboat must have come in last night, and the passengers had either been put ashore last evening, or had been put ashore at sunrise, supposing the boat remained discharging cargo all night.
From Civilization Tales of the Orient by Ellen Newbold La Motte
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 Harold Bindloss
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