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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PACK'ET, n.
1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a packet of letters.
2. A dispatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed by government to convey letters from country to country or from port to port.
3. A vessel employed in conveying dispatches and passengers from place to place, or to carry passengers and goods coastwise.
PACK'ET, v.i. To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel]
2: (computer science) a message or message fragment
3: a small package or bundle
4: a boat for carrying mail [syn: mailboat, mail boat, packet, packet boat]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English pekette, pakat, from Anglo-French pacquet, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch pak pack Date: 15th century 1. a. a small bundle or parcel b. a small thin package c. British (1) pay envelope (2) salary, paycheck d. chiefly British a considerable amount <that trip will cost a packet> 2. a. a number of letters dispatched at one time b. a small group, cluster, or mass 3. a passenger boat usually carrying mail and cargo 4. British a pack of cigarettes 5. a short fixed-length section of data that is transmitted as a unit in an electronic communications network

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a small package. 2 colloq. a large sum of money won, lost, or spent. 3 (in full packet-boat) hist. a mail-boat or passenger ship. Etymology: PACK(1) + -ET(1)

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Packet Pack"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Packeted; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. --Ford.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Packet Pack"et, v. i. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(packets) 1. A packet is a small container in which a quantity of something is sold. Packets are either small boxes made of thin cardboard, or bags or envelopes made of paper or plastic. (mainly BRIT) Cook the rice according to instructions on the packet. ...a cigarette packet. = pack N-COUNT • A packet of something is an amount of it contained in a packet. (in AM, usually use pack, package) He had smoked half a packet of cigarettes... = pack N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. A packet is a small flat parcel. (mainly BRIT) ...a packet of photographs. N-COUNT 3. You can refer to a lot of money as a packet. (BRIT INFORMAL; in AM, use bundle) It'll cost you a packet... = fortune N-SING: a N 4. see also pay packet, wage packet

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Package (small). 2. Vessel (for freight and passengers between stated ports).

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A false report.

Moby Thesaurus

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