noun

• (in the Indian subcontinent) a delivery of mail.

  ‘The conveyance of official papers form three-fourths of the mail conveyed by tappal.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A packet of six English newspapers would be above the weight allowed to go by tappal.’
  • ‘The tappal runs very irregularly from Poonah to the Kistna.’
  • ‘They had to establish a tappal of their own, up and down the works between Madras and Beypoor.’
  • ‘The Tappal from Trincomalie reaches there on all other days at three or four o'clock.’

  Synonyms

  letters, packages, parcels, correspondence, communications, airmail