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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



... open window, the sun glistened upon the shifting white and green leaves of a pipal tree and a crow sat on the sill and thrust his grey head in with caws of indignant expostulation. A Government peon in scarlet and gold ascended the stair at his own pace, bearing a packet with an official seal. The place, with its ink-smeared walls and high ceilings, spoke between dusty yawns of the langour and the leisure which might attend the manipulation of the business of life, ...
— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... when his subaltern's outfit came from the tailor. So Helen glowed with that serious enthusiasm which is the soul of genius, for without it life becomes flat and gray, and she passed many anxious, half-doubting hours until a courteous bank official handed her a packet at the appointed time on Monday, and gave her a receipt to sign, and asked her how she would take her hundred pounds—did she want it all in notes ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy
... from the doctor? Out upon it, here's a packet of epistling, as bigge as a packe of woollen cloth, or a stack of salt fish. Carrier, didst thou bring it by wayne, or by horsebacke? By wayne, sir, and it hath crackt me three axle-trees.—Heavie newes! Take them again! I will never open them.—My cart (quoth he, ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... down his packet.] That's it, master. 'Tis a rare weight as I've been carrying across my back ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin
... Le Bel and asked him for a packet which she had given him for safe-keeping some little time before. He gave it to her, and she opened it. In it were letters and other documents, which, with a steely glance, she displayed to Monaldeschi. ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr


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