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
In any case, it was clear that he had broken down the last bridge behind him when the mailboat stopped and lay rolling more wildly than ever athwart the long swell.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
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
I don't expect him until he calls for his man—the one I've just hove out—when the West-coast mailboat comes in.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
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