2. Verb. (third-person singular of packet) ¹
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Definition of Packets
1. packet [v] - See also: packet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Packets
Literary usage of Packets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Abroad generally they may be sent In Parcels, In Insured Boxes and Small packets (to
those countries which accept them) or (where the ** Green Label ..."
2. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846 by John Macgregor (1847)
"The range to which the New York steam-packets and other packets employed in the
... The Reputar packets and Steamboats in the Coasting Trade, lie at or near ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1839)
"If « liken the European packets to an Atlantic rail road, ii.e cc seting- packets
may be called branch roads, which olivet the necessary outward, ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1894)
"I should be happy to hear that Congress thought of establishing packets of their
own between N. York and Havre. To send a packet from each port once in two ..."
5. The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon (1912)
"CHAPTER VII SAILING packets AND FOREIGN CONNECTIONS THE Irish mail service was
the first to boast a regular sailing packet.1 The postal expenditure for the ..."
6. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"Clark & Kellog established a new line of packets to run between Baltimore and
New Orleans, y On Sunday night, December 6th, ten of the prisoners confined in ..."
7. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"FIRST-AID packets. Small packages properly sealed and protected containing ...
Various kinds of first-aid packets are on the market, but an excellent one is ..."
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