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PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING
PACKET or PACKET-BOAT
PADDLE
PAINTER
PALM
PANCH
PARBUCKLE
PARCELING
PARLIAMENT-HEEL
PARREL
PARSLING
PARTING to PAYING-OFF
PAYING-OUT, or PAYING-AWAY to PILOT
PIN of a block to PLANKING
PLAT to POLE-MAST
Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME
PRATIC to PROP
PROTEST to PURSER
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PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING
PACKET or PACKET-BOAT
PACKET, or PACKET-BOAT, (paquet, Fr.) a vessel appointed by the government to carry the mail of letters, packets, and,expresses from one kingdom to another by sea, in the most expeditious manner. Thus the packet-boats, under the direction of the post-master-general of Great Britain, carry the mails from Dover to Calais, from Falmouth to Lisbon, from Harwich to Helvoetsluys, and from Parkgate to Dublin.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 210, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0924.html