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/pˈækət boʊt/ Listen

noun

packet n.

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.

Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.

Packet boat, Packet ship, or Packet vessel. See Packet, n., 2.

Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day.

Packet note or Packet post. See under Paper.

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Etymology of 'Packet boat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Packet boat" Quotes from Famous Books

... St Eustatia fleet, consisting of thirtyfour sail, of which he captured twentyfour, their escort, two seventyfour gun ships and two frigates, having escaped by their superior swiftness; four other vessels of the same fleet I hear are taken. The captain of a packet boat, arrived at Corunna from Newport, says, that he was chased in the latitude of the Azores by the English fleet, which consisted of eighteen sail of the line. The Spanish squadron has not been heard ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX • Various