a collection of things wrapped or boxed together, (computer science) a message or message fragment, 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, transitive verb_ To make up into a packet or bundle, To send in a packet or dispatch vessel, intransitive verb_ To ply with a packet or dispatch boat