mailboat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mailboat
Example Sentences
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Rough weather can delay ferries and mailboats, leaving residents stuck for days.
From Seattle Times
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
Until an airport opened in 2017, the only way to reach St Helena, home to 4,500 islanders, was by sea, involving a five-night voyage on the mailboat from Cape Town.
From The Guardian
"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 Project Gutenberg
Elsie went round by Marseilles, saw the Seraph on board a P. and O. mailboat bound for Bombay and came overland to Rimini.
From Project Gutenberg
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