"mail bag" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mail bags [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mail bag (plural mail bags)
  1. Alternative form of mailbag. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: mailbag
    Sense id: en-mail_bag-en-noun-EjHtXzsM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.",
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          "ref": "1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The \"City of Truro\"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:",
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