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Letter container
Answer for the clue "Letter container ", 7 letters:
mailbag
Alternative clues for the word mailbag
- Letter carrier's shoulder bag
- Report of laddish talk about carrier
- Burden for Cliff, in "Cheers"
- Postal carrier's tote
- Postholder stitched up by criminal
- Sack for post
- Postholder’s speciality getting to the bottom of motorway trouble
- Sack for carrying (American) letters
- Pouch used in the shipment of mail
Word definitions for mailbag in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also mail-bag , 1794, from mail (n.1) + bag (n.).
Usage examples of mailbag.
The skip in which she had been found contained mailbags from the Canterbury area--had a fanatical religious order seized the children, perhaps a group of deranged high churchmen opposed to the liberal archepiscopal establishment?
None of the things that Dalziel was always telling him, such as he should eat more red meat, or that a university degree was what any convict could get between jerking off and sewing mailbags, seemed to apply.
Gil had ridden mail couriers on a space-available basis himself a time or two, and suspected that the lieutenant had probably been sleeping on top of the mailbags for a day or more in order to make it to Galcen tonight.
If he'd understood the ambassador correctly, randomized waves of ultrasound were traveling through the fluid to thwart any possible spy devices at customs, and a clever little computer program built into his cocoon made him look like a mailbag to any prying muon probes.
A ticket inspector coming on duty (Frank Evans, eighteen years' service with British Rail, already a national hero) had heard what seemed to be a cat hissing among the mailbags in the skip.