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Definition of Mail train
1. Noun. A train that carries mail.
Definition of Mail train
1. Noun. (rail transport) A train used by the postal service to transport mail, and in some cases, to sort mail en route. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mail Train
Literary usage of Mail train
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1873)
"... 3/8 a at Willesden Station, Board of Trade j5b to James Patching, Cut to Pieces
near Inquiry into, 4 J 8 d to the Paris mail train near Marquise, ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1869)
"The mail train was proceeding at full speed, and dashed with awful force into
... The powerful engine of the mail train having crushed up the third-class ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"... the mail car on the mail train of said road to receive and deliver mail matter;
that for the purpose of his business and that of the Postal Department, ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1901)
"... a certain fast west-bound train, commonly known as a 'mail train,' and scheduled
to arrive at the station of Millett aforesaid at 7:35 o'clock, ..."
5. Federal Anti-trust Decisions by United States Courts (1912)
"A mail train is a train as usually and regularly made up, including, not merely
a mail car, but such other cars as are usually drawn in the train. ..."
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