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Packthread

noun
1.
A strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages.






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"Packthread" Quotes from Famous Books



... out, go set up for yourself again, do; drive a trade, do, with your threepennyworth of small ware, flaunting upon a packthread, under a brandy-seller's bulk, or against a dead wall by a balladmonger. Go, hang out an old frisoneer-gorget, with a yard of yellow colberteen again, do; an old gnawed mask, two rows of pins, and a child's fiddle; a glass necklace with the beads broken, and a quilted ...
— The Way of the World • William Congreve

... came on deck. In falling, Bill had struck the chain-span of the weather-quarter davits, breaking it as if it had been packthread. Mr Collinson, the second lieutenant, who had charge of the deck, pointed ...
— Sunshine Bill • W H G Kingston



Words linked to "Packthread" :   twine, string



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