Steampacketとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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.