PACK'ET, n. 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a packet of letters.2. A dispatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed by government to convey letters from country to country or from port to port.3. A vessel employed in conveying dispatches and passengers from place to place, or to carry passengers and goods coastwise.PACK'ET, v.i. To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel.
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