The Collaborative International Dictionary
mailboat \mail"boat`\, mail boat \mail" boat`\n. 1. a boat that carries the mail.
Syn: mail boat, packet, packet boat.
WordNet
n. a boat for carrying mail [syn: mailboat, packet, packet boat]
Usage examples of "mail boat".
All this had to be completed before Davenport went back to England on the mail boat in ten days time.
Had a carpenter named Jim Dyches there with his wife and children that last summer, and them folks got so nervous at the Watson Place that one day they just left without Jim's pay, took off on the mail boat with Gene Gandees.
After it was posted, I could not stop thinking about it, and wondering how many days it would take to travel to her on the mail boat, and if it must dawdle long with my sister before a visit brought them together and Yaril could pass it on.
He'd left Aden on the mail boat - the British Consul had cor firmed that.
The mail boat comes out to meet the ship before it docks, doesn't it?