PACKET

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2. -- Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. -- Packet note or post. See under Paper.

3.
v.

To make up into a packet or bundle.

4.
v.

To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. Her husband Was packeted to France. Ford.

5.
v.

To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

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