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Letter box   /lˈɛtər bɑks/   Listen
Letter box

noun
1.
A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.  Synonyms: call box, PO Box, POB, Post-Office box.
2.
Public box for deposit of mail.  Synonyms: mailbox, postbox.
3.
A private box for delivery of mail.  Synonym: mailbox.






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"Letter box" Quotes from Famous Books



... when Mr. Fortune received through the post letters upon which militancy had squirted its oppression and its determination in black and viscid form through the aperture of the letter box. "And you're sticking up for them!" declared Mr. Fortune in a very great passion. "You're deliberately sticking up for them. You—pah!—pouff!—paff! I have got the abominable stuff all over ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson

... be all right if she doesn't go at it too hard," Polly said, assuringly. "Wonder if we have any mail?" She stopped before the Senior letter box. "One for you, Lo, from your mother, and one for me. Let's go in English room and read ...
— Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School • Dorothy Whitehill



Words linked to "Letter box" :   compartment, mailbox, postbox, pillar box, box, maildrop



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