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Definition of Packthread
1. Noun. A strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages.
Definition of Packthread
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Packthread
Literary usage of Packthread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"Take the other end of the thick packthread F, and pafs it alfo into the buckle or
... here yon mufl fix the hook, and tie the end of the thick packthread, ..."
2. The Complete Steward: Or, The Duty of a Steward to His Lord. Containing by John Mordant (1761)
"... two lower corners of the bag, and tie the corners round with packthread, which
will then be like ..."
3. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year MDCC by Royal Society (Great Britain)., John Lowthorp (1749)
"... Binding of packthread. This done, I blew up the Lungs, and fitting a Cork to
the End of the Syphon, I hung them in a Chimney to dry. ..."
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