PACKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does packer mean? 

• PACKER (noun)
  The noun PACKER has 3 senses:

1. a workman employed to pack things into containers

2. a wholesaler in the meat-packing business

3. a hiker who wears a backpack

  Familiarity information: PACKER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A workman employed to pack things into containers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bagger; boxer; packer

Hypernyms ("packer" is a kind of...):

working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)

Derivation:

pack (arrange in a container)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wholesaler in the meat-packing business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

meat packer; packer

Hypernyms ("packer" is a kind of...):

jobber; middleman; wholesaler (someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers)

Instance hyponyms:

Gustavus Franklin Swift; Swift (United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903))

Derivation:

pack (hike with a backpack)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A hiker who wears a backpack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

backpacker; packer

Hypernyms ("packer" is a kind of...):

hiker; tramp; tramper (a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure))

Derivation:

pack (hike with a backpack)

 Context examples 

The closure can also be produced with vacuum buttons that can clearly indicate to the packer if a vacuum has been effectively drawn following the closure application.

(Lug Metal Container Closure, Food and Drug Administration)

A certain man named Gregory, who was foreman of the packers, and another named Tipp, who was the carman, and wore a red jacket, used to address me sometimes as David: but I think it was mostly when we were very confidential, and when I had made some efforts to entertain them, over our work, with some results of the old readings; which were fast perishing out of my remembrance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)