packet

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small package or bundle.
2. n. Informal A sizable sum of money.
3. n. A boat, usually a coastal or river steamer, that plies a regular route and carries passengers, freight, and mail.
4. n. A short block of data transmitted in a packet switching network.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A small pack or package; a parcel; a mail of letters.
2. n. A despatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed to convey letters from country to country or from port to port; a vessel employed in carrying mails, goods, and passengers at stated intervals; hence, a vessel starting on regular days, or at an appointed time. Also called packet-boat, packet-ship, packet-vessel.
3. n. The panel of a packhorse.
4. n. A pack (250 leaves) of leaf-metal.
5. To bind up in a package or parcel.
6. To despatch or send in a packet-vessel.

Wiktionary

1. n. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
2. n. nautical Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
3. n. botany A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
4. n. networking A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
5. v. transitive To make up into a packet or bundle.
6. v. transitive To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
7. v. intransitive To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel.
2. n. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.
3. v. To make up into a packet or bundle.
4. v. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
5. v. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a small package or bundle
2. n. (computer science) a message or message fragment
3. n. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
4. n. a boat for carrying mail