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单词 by-night
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by-nightn.

Etymology: < by prep. + night n. and int.
Obsolete. rare.
? A letter dispatched by the night post.
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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
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 295 There is..a clerk of the by-nights, and his assistant.
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