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Mailbag   /mˈeɪlbˌæg/   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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"Mailbag" Quotes from Famous Books



... took turns in riding to the post, each esteeming it a privilege, and finding nothing but pleasure in the sixty miles' gallop to Marion and back. At that moment, indeed, Marty was swinging out of sight on his own fine mount, the mailbag before him on his heavy Mexican saddle, the wind created by the swift motion of the beast raising the brim of his broad hat and thrilling him with that sense of abounding life and freedom which comes so forcibly to men in the wide spaces ...
— Jessica, the Heiress • Evelyn Raymond
... N.Y.—This invention has for its object to furnish an improved mailbag fastening by the use of which the mouth of the bag will be closed securely, and which may be operated, in closing and opening the bag, in less time and with less labor, than ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various


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