packet boat
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The grueling trip will require enduring three tedious weeks of crude travel conditions via coal-fueled locomotive, mule-drawn Erie Canal packet boat, steamship and wagon train.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
But if I hadn’t kept a close eye on our son, he would have ended up on a packet boat to New Guinea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2012
Maggie, Kate, Leah, Mother, and Calvin traveled by packet boat over 200 miles east to Albany, the capital city of New York State.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
She, Lizzie, and two female friends boarded a nighttime Erie Canal packet boat.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Captain Culverden of the Queen packet boat brings into Falmouth thirty-six bags and seven baskets of salt, and there lands it clandestinely.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
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