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Mail bag   Listen
noun
mail bag, mailbag  n.  
1.
A bag in which mailed matter is conveyed or shipped under public authority.
Synonyms: mail pouch.
2.
A letter carrier's shoulder bag; as, in England they call a mailbag a postbag.
Synonyms: postbag.





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... anti-slavery speech in this country. General S.L. Woodford was in command for the day. Dr. Richard S. Storrs offered an impressive prayer, and the oration was delivered by direction of the Government, by Henry Ward Beecher. When the speech was completed, Major Anderson drew out from a mail bag the identical bunting that he had lowered four years before, and attached the flag to the halyards, and when it began to ascend, General Gilmore grasped the rope behind him, and, as it came along to our part of ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler


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