Results for packthread

A coarse thread used to sew up packages.

Your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. "Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life", Hesther Lynch Piozzi
Stuff that part of the head where the bones were taken out, tie it up carefully with packthread put it into two quarts of gravy or good broth, with a blade of mace, cover it close, and stew it very slowly for two hours. "The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,", Mary Eaton
It was not wrapped in paper; it was packed close and very skillfully bound together with cords, lengthwise and crosswise, making a network of packthread all over it. "In the Days of the Guild", Louise Lamprey

alphabet filter

stick