Usually means: Boat designed for carrying mail.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. packet boat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. packet boat: Merriam-Webster
  3. packet boat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. packet boat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. packet boat: Vocabulary.com
  6. packet-boat, packet boat: Wordnik
  7. packet-boat, packet boat: Wiktionary
  8. Packet boat, packet boat: Dictionary.com
  9. Packet boat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. packet boat: Rhymezone
  11. packet-boat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. packet boat: FreeDictionary.org
  13. packet boat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. packet boat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. packet boat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. packet boat: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See packet_boats as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (packet boat)

noun:  (historical) An ocean-going ship chartered by the government to carry the mail and official communications.
noun:  (historical) A boat that carried mail, cargo, and, in later years, some passengers along a regularly scheduled route up and down a river or canal.
noun:  (historical) A boat specifically designed to provide transportation to passengers on a regular schedule up and down a river or canal.

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