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Definition of Packet boat
1. Noun. A boat for carrying mail.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Packet Boat
Literary usage of Packet boat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"C.] When hailed at sea, and asked where the packet boat belongs to, the answer
is Holyhead; and the seamen navigating these boats reside at //<;- It/head. ..."
2. The Economic History of the United States by Ernest Ludlow Bogart (1912)
"A flask of water from Lake Erie was poured into New York Bay, and the marriage
of the inland waters CANAL PASSENGER packet boat Canal boats were at first ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1905)
"The section is as follows: " That it shall not be lawful for any stage-coach,
railroad car, steamboat, packet-boat, or other vehicle or vessel, ..."
4. The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1809)
"I shall conclude this paper with a story, that is very well known in the north
of England. About thirty years ago, a packet-boat that had several passengers ..."
5. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Letters from Falmouth of 9th say, the Princesse packet boat from Spain, in her
way from Corunna took a French prize of 150 tuns, laden with wine and brandy, ..."
6. Notes of a Journey Through Canada, the United States of America, and the by James Logan (1838)
"Kindness of General Swartz—Passage to Sault St Marie in the Packet- boat.—The
country unfavourable to grain.—Visit to Mr Jacob, an Indian Methodist ..."
7. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"The said Franklin and Dearie shall have liberty to load a quantity of goods on
board each packet-boat, to and from America., to the amount of 30 tons, ..."
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