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noun

packer n.

A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation or for the market; as, a pork packer.

A ring of packing or a special device to render gas-tight and water-tight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. (U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Packer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Packer" Quotes from Famous Books

... at that and at everything else you do," Nasmyth remarked at length. "In fact, you easily beat Jake, though he's a professional packer and, so to speak, to ...

— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss

... as now, peradventure singling out a favourite performer and casting a negligent eye over the rest; but spelling out every name down to the very mutes and servants of the scene; when it was a matter of no small moment to us whether Whitfield or Packer took the part of Fabian; when Benson, and Burton, and Phillimore—names of small account—had an importance beyond what we can be content to attribute now to the time's best actors." The fond industry with which a youthful devotee of the theatre studies the ...

— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook

... more than in private affairs the great danger always is what the wise old Chicago pork-packer described as "the weak mouths that let slip what they ought to retain." Indiscreet talk has upset many a politician's apple-cart—even the legitimate bumps on the road are not such serious obstacles. It almost spoiled the Margary affair, it threatened the French ...

— Sir Robert Hart - The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition • Juliet Bredon

... sent a message to Mr. Goldstein asking him for a list of the persons who were acquainted with the deceased, with their addresses and occupations. He sent me the list by return, and among the persons mentioned was a man who was engaged as a packer in a wholesale sponge warehouse in the Minories. I further ascertained that the new season's crop of Turkey sponges had arrived a few days ...

— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman

... Packer John Becker of the pack-mule outfit, a frontiersman who had been a guide in the country, was added to the scouts. At the last moment John F. Finerty, a plucky newspaper man who was reporting the campaign for the Chicago Times, asked ...

— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin

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