| 单词 | mail packet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmail packet mail packet n. (a) a boat in which mail is conveyed; (b) a carriage in which mail is conveyed. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach posting carriage1556 wagon1615 post-coach1636 stagecoach1658 flying coach1669 stage1671 wagon-coach1675 stage-wagon1681 post-car1694 post-wagon1694 post calash1703 fly1708 post-carriage1720 post-stage1738 diligence1742 flying machine1764 machine1769 mail coach1785 dilly1786 mail stage1792 high-flyer1799 post-equipage1813 post vehicle1815 tally-ho coach1831 mail packeta1837 flying carriage1849 stager1852 mail-hack1909 a1837 E. C. Knight Jrnl. in C. Knight Autobiogr. (1861) I. ix. 158 On the 31st of October we went on board the King George mail-packet. 1844 R. Hill State Penny Postage 16 The net expense of the Mail packets to these Islands..amounted in 1840–41 to about 7000l. 1943 Beaver (Winnipeg) Mar. 30/1 Mail packets were operated on a time-table, just as are mail flights..today. ‘Packeteers’ were never armed. 1988 B. Cooper Alexander Kennedy Isbister i. i. 19 The drivers of the mail packet were ambushed between Fort Good Hope and Peel River Post. < as lemmas |
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