packet

Definition of packet

pack´et Pronunciation: păk´ĕt

n.

1.

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
See Packet, n., 2.

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

Packet note
See under Paper.

v. t.

1.

To make up into a packet or bundle.

[imp. & p. p. Packeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Packeting.]

2.

To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

Her husband
Was packeted to France.

- Ford.

v. i.

1.

To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

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