Definition of "packet-ship" []

• Same as packet, 2. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Madam Esmond should arrive; and trembled lest the French privateers should take the packet-ship by which the precious letter was conveyed."
• "The fine packet-ship Utica lay down the bay, and only awaited the return of the lighter that night to complete her cargo and list of passengers, ere she departed."
• "The good lady almost frightened me as I went in, by her very extraordinary appearance in a tremendous grey gauze turban, fire-new, just arrived by the Henri Quatre packet-ship from Havre, and that gave her exactly the look of one of our Mississippi night-owls."