mailboat

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English

Etymology

From mail +‎ boat.

Noun

mailboat (plural mailboats)

  1. A boat used to transport mail.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:
      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, chapter VIII, in Capricornia‎, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 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.
    • 1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Timetable Alterations, G.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 55:
      This train has to await the arrival at Kingsbridge of a train from Dun Laoghaire pier which leaves the latter on arrival of the mailboat from Holyhead.

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