Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PACKET
mailboat, mail boat, packet, packet boat
(noun) a boat for carrying mail
packet
(noun) a small package or bundle
packet
(noun) (computer science) a message or message fragment
package, bundle, packet, parcel
(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
packet (plural packets)
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
(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).
(botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
(networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
(South Africa) A plastic bag.
(informal) A large amount of money.
Verb
packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)
(transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
(transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
(intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
(transitive, internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
Anagrams
• Ptacek, peck at
Source: Wiktionary
Pack"et, n. Etym: [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack.]
1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. Shak.
2. 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, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2.
– Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day.
– Packet note or post. See under Paper.
Pack"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Packeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Packeting.]
1. To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. Her husband Was packeted to France. Ford.
Pack"et, v. i.
Definition: To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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