mailboat

English

Etymology

mail +‎ boat

Noun

mailboat (plural mailboats)

1. a boat used to transport mail
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Part I, [1]

     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, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter VIII, p. 120, [2]

     […] 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.

Translations

a boat used to transport mail

• French: courrier (fr) m
• German: Postschiff (de) n
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• Ido: kurieronavo (io)