Packet

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. Shak.

2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2. -- Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. -- Packet note or post. See under Paper.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To make up into a packet or bundle.

2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. Her husband Was packeted to France. Ford.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.