Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A letter intended for a person residing within the delivery of the post-office where it is posted.

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Examples

  • A drop-letter came to me asking me to lecture here for a church debt.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • One morning Paul found a drop-letter in the mail which greeted him daily.

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • After asking a few friends to sign an article of agreement to pay one dollar a year during five years for the orphan asylum, and mailing a couple of letters to Levi Coffin and Rev.E. M. Cravath, of Cincinnati, I took from the office a drop-letter from M.. Burton Kent, County Superintendent of the Poor, containing the following notice:

    A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

  • A drop-letter came to me asking me to lecture here for a church debt.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • A drop-letter came to me asking me to lecture here for a church debt.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • After asking a few friends to sign an article of agreement to pay one dollar a year during five years for the orphan asylum, and mailing a couple of letters to Levi Coffin and Rev.E. M. Cravath, of Cincinnati, I took from the office a drop-letter from M.. Burton Kent, County Superintendent of the Poor, containing the following notice:

    A Woman's Life-Work Haviland, Laura S 1881

  • Each graf started with a large drop-letter capital.

    CJR 2009

  • Each graf started with a large drop-letter capital.

    Inside Higher Ed 2009

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