mailer
- a person who mails or prepares material for mailing.
- a container, as a mailing tube or protective envelope, for mailing papers, books, merchandise, etc.
- an advertising brochure, form letter, or the like, sent out in the mail.
- mailing machine.
- Archaic. a mailboat.
Origin of mailer
Mailer
- Norman,1923–2007, U.S. writer.
- letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system: Storms delayed delivery of the mail.
- a single collection of such letters, packages, etc., as sent or delivered: to open one's mail; to find a bill in the mail; The mail for England was put on the noon plane.
- Also mails. the system, usually operated or supervised by the national government, for sending or delivering letters, packages, etc.; postal system: to buy clothes by mail.
- a train, boat, etc., as a carrier of postal matter.
- electronic mail; email.
- of or relating to mail.
- to send by mail; place in a post office or mailbox for transmission.
- to transmit by email.
- copy the mail, Citizens Band Radio Slang. to monitor or listen to a CB transmission.
Origin of mail
1Related Words for mailer
brochure, leaflet, handbill, notice, handout, flyer, tract, circular, mailerExamples from the Web for mailer
Contemporary Examples of mailer
During this time, Mailer also displayed an unexpected humility in the company of his fellow literary stars.
This is not to suggest that Mailer ever lost the intellectual toughness which was central to his work.
Many readers will no doubt be surprised just how friendly Mailer was, how helpful he was to friends and strangers alike.
“You know, I never had a monstrous ego,” Mailer confides to a friend in l987.
Mailer would argue, for example, that timidity does more harm to the novelist than donning a mask of extreme self-confidence.
Historical Examples of mailer
The great Pacific mailer was lost in the fog full half a mile away.
A Wounded NameCharles King
If they got us out there they could surround us and mailer the life out of us.
SwattyEllis Parker Butler
When she entered the editorial office Tom was putting the last of the papers through the mailer.
Helen in the Editor's ChairRuthe S. Wheeler
He inked each galley, placed it in the mailing machine, and then fed the papers into the mailer.
Helen in the Editor's ChairRuthe S. Wheeler
This is a very short and simple entry in Mr. Mailer's journal, but it has most solemn significance.
George Muller of BristolArthur T. Pierson
mailer
- a person who addresses or mails letters, etc
- US and Canadian a machine used for stamping and addressing mail
- US and Canadian a container for mailing things
Mailer
- Norman. 1923–2007, US author. His works, which are frequently critical of modern American society, include the war novel The Naked and the Dead (1948), An American Dream (1965), his account of the 1967 peace march on Washington The Armies of the Night (1968), The Executioner's Song (1979), and Barbary Shore (1998)
- Also called (esp Brit): post letters, packages, etc, that are transported and delivered by the post office
- the postal system
- a single collection or delivery of mail
- a train, ship, or aircraft that carries mail
- short for electronic mail
- (modifier) of, involving, or used to convey maila mail train
- mainly US and Canadian to send by mailUsual Brit word: post
- to contact (a person) by electronic mail
- to send (a message, document, etc) by electronic mail
Word Origin for mail
- a type of flexible armour consisting of riveted metal rings or links
- the hard protective shell of such animals as the turtle and lobster
- (tr) to clothe or arm with mail
Word Origin for mail
- archaic, mainly Scot a monetary payment, esp of rent or taxes
Word Origin for mail
- Australian informal a rumour or report, esp a racing tip
Word Origin and History for mailer
"post, letters," c.1200, "a traveling bag," from Old French male "wallet, bag, bundle," from Frankish *malha or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *malho- (cf. Old High German malaha "wallet, bag," Middle Dutch male "bag"), from PIE *molko- "skin, bag." Sense extension to "letters and parcels" (18c.) is via "bag full of letter" (1650s) or "person or vehicle who carries postal matter" (1650s). In 19c. England, mail was letters going abroad, while home dispatches were post. Sense of "personal batch of letters" is from 1844, originally American English.
"metal ring armor," c.1300, from Old French maille "link of mail, mesh of net," from Latin macula "mesh in a net," originally "spot, blemish," on notion that the gaps in a net or mesh looked like spots.
"send by post," 1828, American English, from mail (n.1). Related: Mailed; mailing; mailable. Mailing list attested from 1876.
"rent, payment," from Old English mal (see blackmail (n.)).