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▪ I. mailer1 Sc.|ˈmeɪlə(r)|
Also 5–6 mailler, malar, 8 mealler.
[f. mail n.2 + -er1.]
1. One who pays rent; also, see quots. 1792–3.
1452in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 387 All the tenants and maillers being within my lands quatsomever sall remane with thair tacks and maling quhile Whitsonday come a year. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. xii. (Wolf & Lamb) xix, Lordis, that hes land be goddis lane, And settis to the mailleris ane village. 1565Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 358 Gif ony malaris, takkismen, rentalaris or commonis sal happin to be slane. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign., Firmarius, ane mail⁓payer, ane mailer. 1792Statist. Acc. Scotl. II. 560 A species of cottagers, here [sc. co. Ross] called meallers, who build a small house for themselves, on a waste piece of ground, with the consent of the proprietor, and there, are ready to hire themselves out as day-labourers. 1793Ibid. VII. 254 Two classes, tenants and cottagers; or, as the latter are called here [co. Ross and Inverness] mailers. 1894Liberal 1 Dec. 69 His farm stock was better cared for than those of any other mailer in Netherclugh.
†2. ? = Landlord. Obs.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 103 Cristin men that ar duelland in the mistrowand menis housis under malis suld be lele to thair malaris and obeisand.
▪ II. mailer2|ˈmeɪlə(r)|
[f. mail v.4 and n.3 + -er1.]
1. U.S. One who mails or dispatches by post.
1884–94J. T. Perry in W. F. Crafts Sabb. for Man (ed. 7) 328 Editors and compositors are kept up until the small hours on Sunday morning; pressmen and mailers for an hour or two later. 1887Bureau Statist. Labour, New York 490 Newspaper mailers.
2. U.S. A boat which carries the mail; a mail-boat.
1883Century Mag. Nov. 160/1 Showing the skill and good control On Transatlantic Mailers.
3. U.S. = mailing machine.
1902in Webster Suppl.
4. S. Afr. A person who purchases liquor from a bottle-store and resells it to an illicit liquor dealer or shebeener.
1950Cape Times Week-end Mag. 17 June 5 As soon as the bottlestore opens, the mailer is there. He gets his regulation two bottles and takes this to the shebeen. Then he goes to another bottlestore for a further two bottles. And so he goes on the whole day. 1950[see dop n.3 2]. 1959Cape Argus 14 Nov. 2/9 When we stopped the delivery the shebeens arranged for mailers to get the liquor for them.
Sense 4 in Dict. becomes 5. Add: 4. Chiefly N. Amer. a. A container (such as a cardboard tube) for the conveyance of items, esp. papers, by post.
1923Catal. Stationery (Zellerbach Paper Co., U.S.) 268/2 We manufacture the National line of Photo Mailers. They are made with a gummed flap and single corrugated reinforcement. 1934A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 13, I regained custody of it and, with the print still rolled in its cardboard mailer, hurried around to the nearest picture-framer. 1967Boston Sunday Herald Mag. 26 Mar. 26/1 (Advt.), Free film mailers on request. 1986Master Photogr. Oct. 47/2 Special stickers available from the Kodak Fulham location must be applied to the outside of the mailer.
b. A (usu. free) advertising pamphlet, brochure, or catalogue sent out by post; = self-mailer s.v. self-mailing a.
1958Mass. Rep. cccxxxvii. 492 The plaintiff spent some $5,515,000 for advertising, including expenditure for space in magazines..and for catalogs, mailers, displays, mats supplied to retailers, booklets, and other printed advertising. 1970R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 84 Mailer,..an advertising leaflet to be sent out by direct mail. 1987Graphics World Nov./Dec. 17 (Advt.), You will have already received our mailer, extolling the virtues of the White Knight. 1991Professional Heating Sept. 59/1 At the end of the warranty period, customers are sent a mailer offering breakdown insurance. |