Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A railroad-car for carrying the mails.
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Examples
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She would take me down to the station, tell him my story, and get him to hide me in the mail-car.
Confession 2010
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She would see me into the mail-car — she said so herself — and then that mail-clerk relative of hers would carry me to Ogden.
Confession 2010
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For instance, clerks from the Boston post-office detailed to do this duty enter the mail-car at the Boston and Albany
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various
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Not long before my arrival a Mexican mail-car had been wrecked, and between the ceiling and the outer wall were found over forty thousand letters postal clerks had opened and thrown there.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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[Page 93] the path of expediency, which I now think was the wise one, had the letter reached him in time, but it lay with others in the Kiltartan letter-box during a couple of weeks, Christmas time or the wintry weather giving an excuse to the mail-car driver whose duty it is to clear the box as he nightly passed it by.
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I never was asked to pay freight, and to this day cannot explain why, except that I was so small and industrious, and the nerve to appropriate a U.S. mail-car to do a free freight business was so monumental.
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Every morning I had two large baskets of vegetables from the Detroit market loaded in the mail-car and sent to Port Huron, where the boy would take them to the store.
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In the meantime, I lay on the roof of the mail-car, trying to remember whether Roseville Junction, against which burg Bob had warned me, was the first stop or the second stop.
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She would see me into the mail-car — she said so herself — and then that mail-clerk relative of hers would carry me to Ogden.
Confession 1907
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In the meantime, I lay on the roof of the mail-car, trying to remember whether Roseville Junction, against which burg Bob had warned me, was the first stop or the second stop.
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