Meaning of mailboat | Babel Free

Definitions

A boat used to transport mail.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

“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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