steam-packet
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[edit]Noun
[edit]steam-packet (plural steam-packets)
- A packet boat powered by steam.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 255:
- Every preparation was now made: one day more and they were at Dover, and the next they embarked on board the steam-packet.