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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a boat for carrying mail [syn: mailboat, mail boat, packet, packet boat]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Packet Pack"et, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 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, 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.

Moby Thesaurus

carrier, carrier pigeon, homer, homing pigeon, mail car, mail coach, mail packet, mail train, mail truck, mailer, mailplane, pigeon post, post boat, post car, post coach, post-horse, post-office car, poster, railway mail car