Definition of Packet boat. Meaning of Packet boat. Synonyms of Packet boat

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Definition of Packet boat

Packet boat
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.

Meaning of Packet boat from wikipedia

- Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed for domestic mail, p****enger, and freight transportation in European countries and in North American rivers...
- Generally, packet trade is any regularly scheduled cargo, p****enger and mail trade conducted by boat or ship. The boats or ships are called "packet boats or packet...
- using the AX25 protocol Packet trade, regularly scheduled cargo, p****enger, and mail trade conducted by ship Packet boat, type of boat used for scheduled mail...
- The Dort, or Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed is an 1818 painting by J. M. W. Turner, based on drawings made by him in...
- Bristol Packet Boat Trips is a limited company offering public and charter excursions in Bristol Harbour and on the River Avon. The company has four boats: the...
- only on a temporary basis, should not be confused with packet ships—sometimes called packet boats or paquetbots—which were cargo ships which also routinely...
- Exodus 1947 was a packet steamship that was built in the United States in 1928 as President Warfield for the Baltimore Steam Packet Company. From her...
- 1898, and operated on the non-tidal upper Thames by the Thames Steam Packet Boat Company. It is berthed at Runnymede. SL Nuneham was built at Port Brimscombe...
- (Brussels), Belgium, in 1938, in the paquebot style, and has been nicknamed "Packet Boat" or "paquebot". It was designed by Joseph Diongre [fr], and selected...
- the Mississippi River. The boat was built in Louisiana and is operated by Padelford Packet Boat Company. In 2004, the boat parti****ted in the Grand Excursion...