n.
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
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.
v. t.
To make up into a packet or bundle.
v. t.
To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
v. i.
To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
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