packet

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
packet/ˈpakɪt/

▶noun

• 1 a paper or cardboard container.

• 2 (a packet) informal, chiefly Brit. a large sum of money.

• 3 dated a boat travelling at regular intervals between two ports, originally for the conveyance of mail.

• 4 Computing a block of data transmitted across a network.

▶verb (packets, packeting, packeted) (often as adj. packeted) wrap up in a packet.

– origin C16: dimin. of pack1, perh. from Anglo-Norman Fr.; cf. Anglo-Latin paccettum.