mail boat
1mail-boat — mailˈ boat noun A boat that carries the public mail • • • Main Entry: ↑mail …
2mail|boat — «MAYL BOHT», noun. a boat or ship that carries mail …
3mail boat — mailboat mail boat , mail boat mail boat . 1. a boat that carries the mail. Syn: mail boat, packet, packet boat. [WordNet 1.5] …
4mail boat — boat which conveys mail …
5mail boat — noun a boat for carrying mail • Syn: ↑mailboat, ↑packet, ↑packet boat • Hypernyms: ↑boat …
6mail — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a letters and parcels etc. conveyed by post. b the postal system. c one complete delivery or collection of mail. d one delivery of letters to one place, esp. to a business on one occasion. 2 a vehicle carrying mail. 3 hist. a bag… …
7Mail jumping — is a type of mail delivery. The person doing the mail jumping (known as a mail jumper) is transported on a body of water by a boat. The person jumps off the boat onto a dock, places incoming mail in a mailbox, retrieves outgoing mail, and jumps… …
8mail — mail1 [māl] n. [ME male < OFr < MHG malhe, a traveling bag < OHG malaha, wallet] 1. a) Now Scot. a bag or piece of baggage b) Archaic a bag or packet of letters, etc. to be transported by post 2. a) letters, papers, packages, etc. h …
9Boat Railway Post Office — Route Agents and, later, Railway Post Office (RPO) clerks were placed on inland boat lines at a very early date; postmarks go back to 1857. By the 1890s the famed river packets and steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers usually carried RPO… …
10mail — Synonyms and related words: PP, RD, RFD, air express, airfreight, airmail, armature, armor, armor plate, body armor, book post, buckler, bulletproof vest, carrier, carrier pigeon, chain armor, chain mail, chitin, coat of mail, consign,… …
