"mailboat" meaning in English

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          "text": "Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet. Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown.",
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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 120:",
          "text": "[…] the news and propaganda in imperialistic papers imported once a month by the mail-boat from the South lacked power because it lacked continuity and was stale.",
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          "ref": "1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Timetable Alterations, G.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 55:",
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  "word": "mailboat"
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