Definition of "packet boat" []

• See Packet, n., 2. (noun)

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• "JONES’S FELLOW PASSENGERS on the packet boat to France were convivial company, brother officers from the French army returning home after their adventures abroad."
• "Soon, this circumstance made the converted former packet boat the focal point of the first air-sea battle in history."