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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Alps, 1812, oil on canvas, Tate Britain Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed, 1818, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British...
- Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening is an 1826 landscape painting by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. It shows a scene...
- 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...
- 1801 packet boats drawn by four horses ran from Paddington Basin on the edge of London to the 'turning point' docks at Cowley Peachey. Packet Boat Lane...
- 2018 television drama Yellowstone (steamboat), an 1831 side-wheeler packet boat USS Yellowstone (ID-2657), a cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919...
- Lee was a fast paddle-steamer, originally built as a Glasgow-Belfast packet boat named Giraffe, which was bought as a blockade runner for the Confederate...
- near original operating condition. Maria is currently owned by Ashton Packet Boat Company. It is sometimes loaned to the Horseboating Society and has taken...