Crossword clues for postbag
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
postbag
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I was mildly worried by the large postbag.
▪ The first 200 correct winners out of the postbag on Monday, September 14 will receive prizes.
▪ The first five names out of the postbag after that date will win a make-over.
▪ The winners will be drawn from a postbag of correct entries on 22 January 1993.
▪ There are strong feelings on both sides, as my postbag bears witness.
▪ We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received!
▪ We have six to give away to the first names drawn from the postbag on 7 March.
▪ We have two more copies to give away, drawing from our postbag after Wednesday's final post.
Wiktionary
postbag
n. (context British English) A bag used for carrying post (mail)
WordNet
postbag
n. letter carrier's shoulder bag; "in England they call a mailbag a postbag" [syn: mailbag]
Usage examples of "postbag".
The postbag, that evening — it came late — contained a letter for me, which, however, in the hand of my employer, I found to be composed but of a few words enclosing another, addressed to himself, with a seal still unbroken.
This suspicion appeared to be confirmed when de Noailles's postbag was seized, on Gardiner's orders, on its way to Dover and searched and a copy of Elizabeth's last letter to the Queen found in it.