mailboat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mailboat
Example Sentences
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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 • Sep. 8, 2019
In July 1871 Morris and three companions, one of them the Icelandic scholar Eiríkr Magnússon, travelled by Danish mailboat from Edinburgh's Granton harbour to Reykjavík, a four-day journey.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2010
It was towards the end of the afternoon when the skipper of the West-coast mailboat, peering through his glasses, made out two palms that rose apparently straight out of the sea.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
"Don't you know that it is rather a serious thing to delay a Spanish mailboat?" he said.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
The little West-coast mailboat was close alongside now, and flags also commenced to flutter up between her masts, while her whistle screamed in long and short blasts.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
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