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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



... their house. Gregory of Hildesheim had something to do with it, for he was very wroth when he found that I had got this particular chest. But he could not have known what these scripts were or he would have kept them in a sealed packet ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... clergy purchased the whole of his library at a nominal price and made away with it. No papers were found which served to elucidate the mystery which had always surrounded him, but in the corner of one drawer was found a packet containing some faded flowers tied up with a tricoloured ribbon. At first this was supposed to be some love-token, and several people built upon this foundation a romantic biography of the deceased recluse, but the tricolour ribbon tended to discredit this version. My mother never believed ...
— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan
... connected with Mr. Levendale. That can be found out. But I have still more to tell you—perhaps, considering everything, the most important matter of the whole lot. On Monday morning last—that would be a few hours before his death—Mr. Multenius called at the bank and took from it a small packet which he had entrusted to his banker's keeping only a fortnight previously. The bankers do not know what was in that packet—he had more than once got them to take care of similar packets at one time or another. But they described it to me just now. A packet, evidently enclosing ...
— The Orange-Yellow Diamond • J. S. Fletcher
... going to leave you this." He laid a packet upon the table. "It is better for you to be independent, for the sake of appearances." His iron mouth twitched a little. "Now, good-bye! You won't be more miserable than ...
— Rosa Mundi and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... consider why he was so religious. His wonderful nicety in brushing and cleaning his best light boots had features which elevated it to the rank of an art. Every particle and speck of last week's mud was scraped and brushed from toe and heel; new blacking from the packet was carefully mixed and made use of, regardless of expense. A coat was laid on and polished; then another coat for increased blackness; and lastly a third, to give the perfect and mirror-like jet ...
— Under the Greenwood Tree • Thomas Hardy


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