Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

mailsack

British  
/ ˈmeɪlˌsæk /

noun

  1. another name for a mailbag

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

I sure am hungry enough to eat a government mailsack.

From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod

"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

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "mailsack" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com