Found 3 hits - Term: packet boat, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
packet \pack"et\ pa^k"e^t, n. f. paquet, dim. fr. ll.
paccus, from the same source as e. pack. see pack.
1913 webster
1. a small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a
packet of letters. --shak.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
pack packet boat packet ship packet vessel packet packet day
packet note packet post paper
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
packet boat
n : a boat for carrying mail syn: mailboat, mail boat, packet
see also:
mailboat mail boat packet
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
19 moby thesaurus words for "packet boat":
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
Results 1 - 8 of 8 found about packet boat: Packet Boat
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Packet Boat, definition of term: Packet Boat
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Boat, definition of term: Boat
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Packet, definition of term: Packet
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Packet Switchin, definition of term: Packet Switchin
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Packet Radio, definition of term: Packet Radio
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Pilot Boat, definition of term: Pilot Boat
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Peter Boat, definition of term: Peter Boat
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Patrol Boat, definition of term: Patrol Boat
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