Results for packthread

Definitions of packthread:

part of speech: noun

A coarse thread used to sew up packages.

part of speech: noun

Strong twine.

Usage examples for packthread:

• 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