packthread
Americannoun
noun
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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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Spread the forcemeat upon it, roll it up, bind it with packthread, and serve it up with gravy sauce.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
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 Bache, Franklin
I thought so too, and grew the warmer at being unable to find a wisp of osier or a roll of packthread in the house.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
The weight was no longer upon it, it was light as packthread, and returned to our hands without effort.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
In falling, Bill had struck the chain-span of the weather-quarter davits, breaking it as if it had been packthread.
From Sunshine Bill by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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