mailsack

British

/ ˈmeɪlˌsæk /

noun

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."

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I sure am hungry enough to eat a government mailsack.

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The stage had stopped to take on a mailsack.

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