mailboat

English

Etymology

mail +‎ boat

Noun

mailboat (plural mailboats)

  1. a boat used to transport mail
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Part I,
      Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet. Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter VIII, p. 120,
      […] the news and propaganda in imperialistic papers imported once a month by the mail-boat from the South lacked power because it lacked continuity and was stale.

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