AIRMAIL

airmail, airpost

(noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft

airmail

(noun) letters and packages that are transported by aircraft

airmail

(verb) send or transport by airmail; “Letters to Europe from the U.S. are best airmailed”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

airmail (countable and uncountable, plural airmails)

The system of conveying mail using aircraft.

The items of mail so carried.

Verb

airmail (third-person singular simple present airmails, present participle airmailing, simple past and past participle airmailed)

(transitive) To send mail by air.

(baseball) To (unintentionally) throw the ball well over a fielder's head where that fielder is unable to make a play on the ball.

Source: Wiktionary



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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