Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mail-box.
- noun In machinery, a shafting-box attached to a post instead of to a hanging or standing pedestal.
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Examples
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When the ambulance crew arrived, she said to them: "Could you put this letter in the post-box please, because my grand-daughter really needs the money?"
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You know those pizza delivery flyers you leave half-protruding through the post-box and piling up on the doorstep?
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Our vision should be a society where: every citizen has an email account and a subsided personal computer with free software; every home has a post-box and radio and TV access; and every community has a technology centre within walking distance, where IT training is offered, e-government services are available and SMME information can be accessed.
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He wrote them every time he came in, and he put them in the post-box in the Village Square.
Archive 2007-05-01 Fathorse 2007
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He wrote them every time he came in, and he put them in the post-box in the Village Square.
For Reason, Whenever I May Find Her Fathorse 2007
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Baden post-box, and so had come to its destination.
The Newcomes 2006
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There was no point in saying that it was quite likely that the papers were the remnants of some last-minute business letters of my father's, draughts later rewritten and dropped into a post-box, so I got out my note-book and wrote down the instruction to myself: Norbert — fireplaces cleaned?
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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There was no point in saying that it was quite likely that the papers were the remnants of some last-minute business letters of my father's, draughts later rewritten and dropped into a post-box, so I got out my note-book and wrote down the instruction to myself: Norbert — fireplaces cleaned?
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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“Poor devil!” said Lord Newhaven, putting the letter, not in the post-box at his elbow, but in his pocket.
Red Pottage 2004
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At Liverpool he suddenly stopped at a post-box and mailed his card to Istra.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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