Read full poem →As one put drunk into the Packet-boat,
Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't.
Dictionary Entry
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
In a Sentence
“Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. packetswitching packetloss packetsize packetpacket wavepacket datapacket ippacket steam
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Poetry examples for “packet”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →July 2. Sail from Falmouth in Lisbon packet. (Stanza xii. Letter 125.)
Read full poem →Aug. 17. Sail from Gibraltar in Malta packet. (Stanzas xvii.-xxviii.)
Malta. (Stanzas xxix.-xxxv. Letter 130.)
Read full poem →“Coase,” and in 1770 were living east of the Green at Norwich.
By old issues of the Packet we find he had a boot and shoe shop
near the Packet office, where he made the best of goods, “good
Read full poem →where few, in that day, travelled ; sketches from
the deck of a packet-boat on the canal ; from a
stage-house at the foot of a hill, or on a valley's