"mailboat" meaning in English

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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",
          "text": "This train has to await the arrival at Kingsbridge of a train from Dun Laoghaire pier which leaves the latter on arrival of the mailboat from Holyhead.",
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        "A boat used to transport mail."
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          "sense": "a boat used to transport mail",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "courrier"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a boat used to transport mail",
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          "word": "Postschiff"
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          "sense": "a boat used to transport mail",
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  "word": "mailboat"
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      "word": "courrier"
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  "word": "mailboat"
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