English Dictionary

packet-boat

名詞

Government-commissioned mail ship. / River or canal boat that carries mail. / Passenger boat.

日本語の意味

政府委嘱の郵便船 / 郵便物を運ぶ河川または運河の船 / 旅客船

The packet-boat arrived at dawn, its cargo of letters and parcels bound for distant colonies.

政府委託の郵便船は夜明けに到着し、遠くの植民地へ向かう手紙や小包を積んでいた。

意味（1）

Government-commissioned mail ship.

She proved to be a barco de aviso, or packet-boat, that was going with letters form Panama to Lima.

意味（2）

River or canal boat that carries mail.

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;

意味（3）

Passenger boat.

A canal packet-boat leaves here daily at 9 o'clock for Whitehall, and runs through in about 22 hours.

packet-boats （ plural ）