MAIL TRAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mail train mean? 

• MAIL TRAIN (noun)
  The noun MAIL TRAIN has 1 sense:

1. a train that carries mail

  Familiarity information: MAIL TRAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAIL TRAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A train that carries mail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mail train" is a kind of...):

railroad train; train (public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive)

Meronyms (members of "mail train"):

mail car (a railway car in which mail is transported and sorted)

 Context examples 

It was no light running now, nor record time, but heavy toil each day, with a heavy load behind; for this was the mail train, carrying word from the world to the men who sought gold under the shadow of the Pole.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)