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mailcatcher

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mail⋅catch⋅er

[meyl-kach-er]
–noun Railroads.
a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.

Origin:
1870–75, Americanism; mail 1 + catcher
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