| 单词 | way letter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasway letter ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letters, etc., by method of dispatch or conveyance post-letter1648 ship-letterc1675 by-letter1685 penny-post letter1686 way letter1710 by-night1766 cross-letter1789 twopenny1818 box letter1827 non-paid1829 balloon-letter1870 pigeongram1875 railway letter1891 pneumatogram1894 airmail1918 aerogram1919 airgram1919 air letter1920 pneumatique1924 pneu1926 snail mail1929 aerogramme1934 airgraph1941 1710 Act 9 Anne c. 11 Be it enacted..That if..any Deputy Postmaster..shall not duly answer and account to Her Majesty..for all such By and Way Letters..or that shall destroy or embezill any such [etc.]. 1739 J. Cay Abridgm. Publick Statutes II. sig. 10Uv It shall be lawful for the postmaster general to set up cross stages, and take for all letters which he shall convey in such cross stages, as also for all by or way letters, the same rates in proportion to the distances as letters conveyed to and from London. 1773 H. Finlay Jrnl. 11 Nov. (1867) 38 Way letters he makes his own perquisite. 1851 E. Bowen U.S. Post-Office Guide 47 On the letters brought by a mail carrier to be mailed, called way-letters, one cent. is to be charged in addition to the usual postage. 1893 H. Joyce Hist. Post Office x. 147 For purposes of illustration..A bye or way letter would be a letter passing between any two towns on the Bath road and stopping short of London. 1908 Post-office Appropriation Bill Hearings (House of Representatives) 370 I should say that a way letter is in the nature of a drop letter on a water course where there is no regular post-office. As I understand it, it is an accommodation to the people living along a water course. < as lemmas |
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