单词 | packet boat |
释义 | packet boat (once / 101891 pages) n WORD FAMILY packet boat: packet boats USAGE EXAMPLESBut if I hadn’t kept a close eye on our son, he would have ended up on a packet boat to New Guinea. New York Times(Mar 28, 2012) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary—(2n...(2012) These were packed in ten or twelve boxes, and were shipped on a packet boat, by sea. Faris, John T. (John Thomson), Historic Shrines of America—Being t...(2012) n a boat for carrying mail Syn|Hyper mail boat, mailboat, packet boat a small vessel for travel on water |
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