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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
packer
noun
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▪ A £25 excess applies and brittle items must be packaged by professional packers.
▪ Although many big packers welcome it, the National Meat Association and some industry figures have resisted the change.
▪ For reciprocal altruism in mobile animals, as demonstrated by packer in baboons, more is needed.
▪ I have a friend at Sotheby's, who is sending a skilled art packer to box up these things tomorrow.
▪ The 14 spouts are spread across the 4m width, coming in after the tines and before the packer roller.
▪ Then she figured out I want me a packer jacket.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
packer

packer \pack"er\ (p[a^]k"[~e]r), n.

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

  2. 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.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
packer

mid-14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), agent noun from pack (v.).

Wiktionary
packer

n. A person who plays football for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Bay%20Packers professional football team

WordNet
packer
  1. n. a workman employed to pack things into containers [syn: bagger, boxer]

  2. a wholesaler in the meat-packing business [syn: meat packer]

  3. a hiker who wears a backpack [syn: backpacker]

Wikipedia
Packer

Packer or Packers may refer to:

Packer (Middlesex cricketer)

Packer (first name and dates unknown) was an English first-class cricketer who was active in the 1780s. He was recorded playing for Middlesex against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at New Ground, Uxbridge Moor in August 1790, scoring 11 and 21.

Packer (software)

Packer is free and open-source software for creating identical machine images or containers for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. It is used primarily to automate the creation of machine images which have a particular operating system and pre-installed software in it. It was written by Mitchell Hashimoto and became one of the products in his company Hashicorp's software toolkits as open-source proprietary-managed software. Packer can be used with Vagrant or independently. Packer can also be used with configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet. However, it does not serve as a substitute for these tools.

Packer is written in Go programming language.

Usage examples of "packer".

As president of Acme Packers, I am well aware of my competitors, of which Starbuck is definitely one.

That was the effect Cheb Packer had on her, and she liked the sensation, enjoyed the stirring of such powerful feelings.

One of the nibs stuck in her finger, the packers dropped something heavy, a log hissed in the firebox, and when someone knocked on the door she jumped from her chair, upsetting the table.

Beechams, and they climbed into the Reo once more and stared down on the other side of the road, where the foreman had told them his packers lived.

Willmu Keble Snr civitas, London, William Packer, Elizabeth Sewster, Marmaduke Walker, his mark, witness.

I was confident we could fill the Packer roster with wonderful players and we could have a terrific staff of assistant coaches.

Their packers are up, the stengahs are flowing free at the clubs, and even the old Raffles Hotel is very jammed and gay.

In Woodlawn the Armour meat packers lie next to the Babbit soap manufacturers.

Willmu Keble Snr civitas, London, William Packer, Elizabeth Sewster, Marmaduke Walker, his mark, witness.

With Holmgren, and then Favre, the Packers had the founddation in place to improve quickly.

Mike Holmgren has the responsibility and authority to direct the Packers.

Mike Holmgren installed his version of the so-called West Coast offense with the Packers.

Sie Patron nun nicht augenblicklich von der Bildflaeche verschwinden, so lasse ich Ihnen durch den Packer den Abgang erleichtern, verstehen Sie mich?

If the archaeologists were in on the theft of the artifacts--and he had a hunch that they ought to be his immediate prime suspects--then Mountain Packers would most likely be their way of delivering illegal artifacts from the cliff dwellings.

With the snow on the ground, it was easy to see that the packers and the archaeologists had headed down the Mountainside, probably less than two hours earlier.