Definitions
a boat for carrying mail
Word origin
From mail + boat.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Postal watercraft”8 letters
02“Postal vessel”8 letters
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