mailed
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From mail (“send by post”).
Verb
mailed
- simple past and past participle of mail
Etymology 2
From mail (“chainmail; spot on a bird's feather”).
Adjective
mailed (comparative more mailed, superlative most mailed)
- Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
- (rare) Spotted.
- 1888, Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies, page 169:
- […] from blossom of lime to perfumed bloom of acacia — darts the humming-bird, his coat of mailed feathers glowing like a gem.
- 1888, Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies, page 169:
Verb
mailed
- simple past and past participle of mail