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mailsack

British  
/ ˈmeɪlˌsæk /

noun

  1. another name for a mailbag

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"I saw the mailsack hanging on the hook at the railroad station down on the coast, and the train came along and grabbed it off with another hook."

From Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's by Hope, Laura Lee

The stage had stopped to take on a mailsack.

From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod

I sure am hungry enough to eat a government mailsack.

From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod

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