† post-barkn.
Obsolete.
= post-boat n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > packet or mailboat
post-boat1582
post-bark1599
post1600
post packet1634
packet-boat1642
packeta1670
post office packet1780
packet-ship1782
packet-bark1806
packet steamer1842
sailing-packet1842
mailboat1895
multipacket1965
1599 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Cal. MSS Marquis of Salisbury (1902) IX. 377 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 928) LI. 1 I cannot hear of any passage..out of Ireland, saving the post bark which brought over two packets.
1600 Ld. Mountjoy in Cal. Documents Ireland 423 We find great lack of a post-bark to pass to and fro between Lough Foyle and Dublin..we have adventured to erect a passage boat for that purpose, at the rate of 10l. per mensem, as the other post-barks have.
1650 Cal. State Papers, Domest. (1876) 26 The whole business of the post barks referred back to the Irish Committee.
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 161 Sending away neverthelesse a Post-barque to Athens, to let them know what had befallen him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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