packeting

Verb

packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)

1. (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
   • [H]er husband / VVas packetted to France, to ſtudy courtſhip, / Under forſooth a colour of employment, / Employment, yea of honour.c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act I, page 2
3. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
4. (Internet, transitive) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
   • Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […]2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace

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