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Mail bag   Listen
noun
mail bag, mailbag  n.  
1.
A bag in which mailed matter is conveyed or shipped under public authority.
Synonyms: mail pouch.
2.
A letter carrier's shoulder bag; as, in England they call a mailbag a postbag.
Synonyms: postbag.





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"Mail bag" Quotes from Famous Books



... dishonor, infatuated with their rank disgrace. Time and again I have been requested to hold them up to the scorn of human-kind, and time and again I have essayed the subject only to find the product of my pen unprintable—it would have melted the type and burned a hole in an asbestos mailbag. But indignation cools as the days run, philosophy asserts itself, and perchance I can speak of these offenders in language sufficiently polite to escape the attention of the police. The facts may be summarized as follows: A modest, well-behaved ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... soon on our way again. At every solitary house along the road we stopped to leave a mailbag. Whom could the letters ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... not have her baby in her arms this time. Then every one was silent, only a woman's sob sounded softly, and the pretty lady stood staring across the water, where high above the waves swung a big leather mailbag. It came nearer and nearer, and men went far out into the surf to steady it, until it was unfastened, lifted down, opened, and the pretty lady, crying and laughing, held her baby in her arms, and the child laughed back at ...
— Prince Jan, St. Bernard • Forrestine C. Hooker


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