"packet" Definition

Definitions for the word "packet" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To make up into a packet or bundle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
1 small package. 2 colloq. Large sum of money won, lost, or spent. 3 (in full packet-boat) hist. Mail-boat or passenger ship.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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