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packetarian U.S.|pækɪˈtɛərɪən|
[f. packet n. 2 + -arian.]
One of the crew of a packet-boat.
1882Harper's Mag. July 281/1 The typical ‘Jack’ of the pre-propeller age—the ‘packetarian’, and the able seaman of the clipper-ship fleet—has..utterly vanished. 1887S. Samuels From Forecastle to Cabin 265 The ‘packetarians’ came last, and they invariably found themselves reduced to the same toggery in which they boarded the ship. 1930R. Clements Grey Seas 110 No ‘packetarians’ these days, Mr. Findlay. |