“post、bag”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

post-bag

释义

ˈpost-bag
[f. post n.² + bag n.]
A bag for carrying letters and other postal matter; a mail-bag; transf. the number of letters, etc. delivered to or sent from any house or person.
1813Moore Post-bag 284 The honour and delight of first ransacking the Post Bag.1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxviii. (ed. 3) 273 The Post-bag despatched every evening to one of our largest cities, Bristol, usually weighs less than a hundred pounds.1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 657. 1883 J. Martin Remin. Old Haddington 227 Post-bags were carried on horseback from Edinburgh to London.1898Tit Bits 23 July 322/2 The Prince of Wales has the biggest post-bag of any of the Royalties.

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