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Packet-boat

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  1. 1
    Alternative form of packet boat.; Government-commissioned mail ship.

    "She proved to be a barco de aviso, or packet-boat, that was going with letters form Panama to Lima."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of packet boat.; River or canal boat that carries mail.

    "The declaration contains ten counts, and in substance, they all and each of them charge, that Bromley, the defendant, was the captain of the packet-boat Empire, which regularly performed trips, at stated periods, between two places, from on to the other of which places the United States mail was regularly converyed, under the authority of the Post-Office Department, to wit, between Albion and Rochester;"

  3. 3
    Alternative form of packet boat.; Passenger boat.

    "A canal packet-boat leaves here daily at 9 o'clock for Whitehall, and runs through in about 22 hours."

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