Definition of "mail-cart" []

• A cart in which the public mail is carried. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But no sooner had it got above Saint – Laurent than it raced like a mail-cart to Saint – Denis, which it reached in forty minutes."
• "The rattle of the rickety old mail-cart, on its way to Winchester that night, was heard, and the horn of the driver as he passed the church."
• "The jin-ri-ki-sha, to give it its full name, means man-power carriage, and is like a big mail-cart or perambulator."