steam-packet

English

Noun

steam-packet (plural steam-packets)

  1. A packet boat powered by steam.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, 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.
    • 1955 June, C. L. Mowat, “The Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:
      Portishead, lying west-north-west of Bristol, on the Severn, had a small port from medieval times on its pill, or inlet, and began to develop as a seaside resort early in the nineteenth century, when it was served by steam packets from Bristol.
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