PACK'ET, noun 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, verb intransitive To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI