Results for packthread
Definitions of packthread:
part of speech: noun
A coarse thread used to sew up packages.
part of speech: noun
Usage examples for packthread:
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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