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Packet   /pˈækət/  /pˈækɪt/   Listen
noun
packet  n.  
1.
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
2.
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.


verb
Packet  v. t.  (past & past part. packeted; pres. part. packeting)  
1.
To make up into a packet or bundle.
2.
To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. "Her husband Was packeted to France."


Packet  v. i.  To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.





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"Packet" Quotes from Famous Books



... to go back by the steamboat if you can?-If the steamboat goes I will go with her but if not, I will have to stay until the packet ...
— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie
... evening, a small packet was brought to her which she found to contain some money in notes wrapped in a slip of paper on which was ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... a guard, to certain neighboring villages where there were bowling-greens. One day, while he was going on one of these excursions, a man, in the dress of a laborer, appeared standing on a bridge as he passed, and handed him a packet. The commissioners who had charge of Charles—for some of them always attended him on these excursions—seized the man. The packet was from the queen. The king told the commissioners that the letter was only to ask him some question about the disposal of his son, the young prince, who was then ...
— Charles I - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... upstairs, while her husband stood at the window watching the street till the table should be cleared. He was presently aware of someone behind him, although the servant was gone. It was Mrs Browning who held him by the shoulder to prevent his turning to look at her, and at the same time pushed a packet of papers into the pocket of his coat. She told him to read that, and to tear it up if he did not like it; and then she fled again to her own room." The papers were a transcript of those ardent poems which ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden
... called for over and over, At length sent in Teague with a packet of news, Wherein the sad knight, to his grief did discover How Dryden had lately robbed him of ...
— The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Vol. I. - With a Life of the Author • Sir Walter Scott


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