PACKTHREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does packthread mean? 

• PACKTHREAD (noun)
  The noun PACKTHREAD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PACKTHREAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACKTHREAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

string; twine (a lightweight cord)

 Context examples 

I have seen him do the summerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no thicker than a common packthread in England.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Eighty poles, each of one foot high, were erected for this purpose, and very strong cords, of the bigness of packthread, were fastened by hooks to many bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I walked towards the north-east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small perspective glass, and viewed the enemy’s fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron. The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)