packthread
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Etymology
Origin of packthread
First recorded in 1300–50, packthread is from the Middle English word pakthrede. See pack 1, thread
Example Sentences
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Put in a glass of red wine, give it a boil, and take it up; lay it in a dish, and strain the gravy over it, untying the packthread first.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
It was tied with pink packthread instead of ribbon.
From A Little Country Girl by Susan Coolidge
The snares are made out of deer sinews, twisted like packthread, and sometimes of thongs cut from a ‘parchment’ deerskin, which, as you know, is a deerskin simply dried, and not tanned or dressed.
From The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North by William Harvey
The ropes parted like packthread; the building slewed round, reeled for a moment with a drunken air, caught on a shallow spot, and hung there.
From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
I immediately made two close sutures; and also two others in the skin, on each side, adapting to them two pieces of packthread, more easily to fix the dressings.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
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