单词 | postal car |
释义 | > as lemmaspostal car postal car n. originally U.S. a railway car for transporting mail. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > vehicle or vessel > railway vehicle mail coach1838 mail train1839 mail car1842 night mail1842 post-office car1851 mail1862 postal car1864 postal1891 1864 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. 4/5 A mail train will leave here.., with a postal car, on which letters can be mailed up to the time of starting. 1868 N.Y. Herald 17 July 5/6 A postal car is attached..to the express trains from New York to Buffalo. 1917 Geogr. Rev. 4 342/2 It..was appointed to consider the routes to be followed in France, the Colonies, and in Allied countries, types of postal car or carrier, [etc.]. 2004 SinoCast (Nexis) 13 Aug. The mails are sent to Shanghai for exchange by CAAC planes and then are delivered by regional postal cars to have mails arrive the following day. < as lemmas |
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