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词组 gum tree mail
释义 gum tree mail
noun
a non-official mail service in which a letter to be posted is stuck in a cleft stick and passed to the driver or guard of a train passing through a remote area AUSTRALIA
  • A stockman stands in the middle of the track frantically waving a stick. His horse is tethered to a nearby bush. This is the first of many occasions upon which you will see how the “gum tree mail” operates. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 278, 1969
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