mail boat

NOUN
  1. a boat for carrying mail
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  • This unnamed reporter found that he had just missed the mail boat carrying letters from America to Britain.
  • We have gone up the bank now a few yards to the cargo boat and installed ourselves in it with our luggage -- a very easy "flitting" -- and we find the cargo steamer just as perfectly comfortable as the mail boat we have left -- cabins, mess table, promenade on the upper deck in the bows. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
  • At first workers were recruited from occupations where skills were roughly analogous and transferable, that is, workshop mechanics from the iron, machine and building trades; conductors from stagecoach drivers, steamship stewards and mail boat captains; station masters from commerce and commission agencies; and clerks from government offices. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Douglas Duff's arrival by mail boat at Dublin's North Wall was made memorable when he spotted four caskets covered by Union Jacks awaiting return to England.
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