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packet boat
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From packet, meaning the packets of mail that were carried. For the passenger boats, the name derives from the boats that carried mail (かつ sometimes passengers) on rivers or canals, from which these services evolved.
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packet boat (複数形 packet boats)
- (historical) An ocean-going ship chartered by the government to carry the mail and official communications.
- 1817, J. HORN, H.'s Description of Dover, page 119:
- For every trunk, portmanteau, chest, box, bag, bundle, packet, or parcel, conveyed from any inn to the Custom-house, and from thence to or on board any boat, passage vessel, or packet boat, or landed from any boat, passage vessel or packet boat, and conveyed to the Custom-house, and from thence to any inn, or to the Custom-house only, or direct to any inn, or to any part of the town, not exceeding 28lbs in weight, whether carried by barrow, knot, or hand
- 2012, Thomas Wright, William Harvey: A Life in Circulation:
- The packet boat on which Harvey should have travelled hoisted sail in the evening, leaving behind a smouldering Kentishman on the shore, where he was forced to spend the night.
- (historical) A boat that carried mail, cargo, and, in later years, some passengers along a regularly scheduled route up and down a river or canal.
- 1849, The Irish Jurist - Volume 1, page 26:
- On the night in question the plaintiff's boat had arrived at the harbour of Moyvalley, shortly before the arrival of the packet boat; and after touching at the Moyvalley side, so as to give facility to one of the persons on board to hand out oats for the purpose of feeding the horses engaged in drawing the boat, the persons on board pushed the boat with poles across towards the opposite side of the canal, within a few yards of another boat, which was moored close to the opposite bank, in which position the plaintiff's boat was, when the packet boat entered the harbour or station.
- 2007, Historic Resource Study: Chesapeake & Ohio Canal:
- Whenever any boats or floats moving in opposite directions, approach a place in the Canal which is less than thirty feet wide on its surface, or which will not safely permit their passing, it shall be the duty of the master of the boat or float ascending the Canal, to stop at such distance from such narrow place as may be convenient for the descending boat or float to pass through such narrow place, and there wait until such passage is effected: Provided, however that a descending boat or float, that is not a licensed packet boat which is about thus to meet an ascending licensed packet boat, shall stop and give place for the said licensed packet boat, first to pass through the said narrow place;- and, provided, also, that descending rafts shall, in all such cases, stop and give place for boats and every other description of ascending floats first to pass through the same.
- (historical) A boat specifically designed to provide transportation to passengers on a regular schedule up and down a river or canal.
packet-boat
名詞
packet-boat (複数形 packet-boats)
- Alternative form of packet boat
- Government-commissioned mail ship.
- 1820, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the year 1803:
- River or canal boat that carries mail.
- 1852, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States:
- The declaration contains ten counts, and in substance, they all and each of them charge, that Bromley, the defendant, was the captain of the packet-boat Empire, which regularly performed trips, at stated periods, between two places, from on to the other of which places the United States mail was regularly converyed, under the authority of the Post-Office Department, to wit, between Albion and Rochester;
- 2009, John McDonald, Biographical Sketches of General Nathaniel Massie, page 85:
- Propelling the packet-boat up the stream was the most laborious and dangerous employment which can be imagined. The Indians were unceasing in their efforts to destory small parties of whites, as they were passing up or down the river Ohio. There were then but few places between Cincinnati and Wheeling, for the packet-boat to rest at night safely.
- Passenger boat.
- Government-commissioned mail ship.
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