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packet boat
noun as in ferry
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The cook, a native of Harwich, sent up word of a night packet-boat starting at about eleven o'clock last year.
The packet-boat, he maintained, had not a proper Algerine pass, and therefore had been lawfully seized.
A little way up the river they passed the packet boat, a little belated and heavily laden, but moving steadily.
Then he had attempted many callings—apothecary's apprentice, usher,10 book-keeper in a packet-boat on the Upper Seine.
A voyage in an ordinary sailing-vessel, which is not a packet-boat, is as wearisome a thing as can be well conceived.
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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to packet boat, such as: barge, ferryboat, packet, and passage boat.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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