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Definitions of pack:

part of speech: verb transitive

To press together and fasten up: to place in close order: to select persons for some unjust object.

part of speech: noun

Packer.

part of speech: verb

To bind together tightly and firmly; to place in close order; to select and put together persons for an unjust object, as to pack a jury; to tie up goods for carriage; to go or send off in a hurry.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To press into a hard mass; as, ice packs together; to stow things for safety or carrying; to admit of being stowed; as, these articles pack well; depart or remove in haste.

part of speech: noun

That which is bound up together: a bundle: a burden: a complete set of cards: a number of hounds hunting, or kept together: a number of persons combined for bad purposes: any great number.

part of speech: noun

A bundle or bale tied up for convenient carriage; a load; a set of playing cards; a body of hounds for hunting; a number of persons confederated, in an ill sense.

part of speech: verb transitive

To stow away, or to press into a bundle, as goods for carrying; to fill closely; as, to pack a trunk; to crowd together; as, to pack people in a room; to press into a hard mass; as, to pack earth; dismiss or discharge.

Usage examples for pack:

• So they journeyed on together in a very friendly manner, the donkey carrying the pedlar's pack and the pedlar walking by his side. "The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories", Mary De Morgan

• Busy all the morning writing letters to several, so to dinner, to London, to pack up more things thence; and there I looked into the street and saw fires burning in the street, as it is through the whole City, by the Lord Mayor's order. "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

• " I am going hot- foot back to the Man- Pack Mowgli said at last. "The Second Jungle Book", Rudyard Kipling

• In five minutes he was in the kitchen; but Joyce was there ahead of him, helping Grandma to pack the lunch basket. "A Hive of Busy Bees", Effie M. Williams