steam-packet

English

Noun

steam-packet (plural steam-packets)

  1. A packet boat powered by steam.
    • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 2, 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.
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