The Collaborative International Dictionary
Packing \Pack"ing\, n.
The act or process of one who packs.
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Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close. Specifically (Mach.): A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious; as:
A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.
The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.
A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.
(Masonry) Same as Filling. [Rare in the U. S.]
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A trick; collusion. [Obs.] --Bale. Cherd packing (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. --Waddell. Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. Packing ring. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston. Packing sheet.
A large cloth for packing goods.
A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.
WordNet
n. a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal [syn: stuffing box]
a large crate in which goods are packed for shipment or storage [syn: packing case]
Usage examples of "packing box".
A corner of a makeshift hut intruded on the scene, part of a packing box with Sorosub Imports Division stenciled on it and a roof made of what looked like a survival tarp.
As he shoved a packing box out of his way with his foot, he glanced through the window toward the house next door.
He'd seen the rake sticking out a packing box, and the ax bits spilled from another frame of rotting wood.
In the confusion that swept her, she grabbed one and then another party dress, balled them up shamelessly and began stuffing them into her packing box.
And neither any of the bog plants nor the packing box were sturdy enough to pry the mesh work open far enough for her to squeeze through.
He dug into a packing box and came out with what might have been fresh jeans.
It is now in a packing box awaiting rebirth in my new home, tentatively slated to be an upper-floor suite in a Seattle house belonging to Harmony's aunt.
Jarmi was looking up at Laneff, squatting next to the packing box, her pale-green lab coat spread on the dirty floor around her.
Someone had kicked a packing box into the middle of the floor and he had the misfortune to stumble over that and lunge into Ham, who hit him a respectable wallop thinking he was an enemy.
Meanwhile we have more of those stylish, straight from the packing box work blues from Voyager’.
Meanwhile we have more of those stylish, straight from the packing box work blues from Voyager's suppliers, and more of the galley's not-so-bad sandwiches, flavor of your choice&hellip.
Meanwhile we have more of those stylish, straight from the packing box work blues from Voyager's suppliers, and more of the galley's not-so-bad sandwiches, flavor of your choice- synth cheese, synth eggs and bacon, and real, Voyager-produced fish.
Halfway to the packing box where the puppies were she caught the dead scent of Curley's wife, and the hair arose along her spine.
She whimpered and cringed to the packing box, and jumped in among the puppies.
She pushed away from the desk, and as she moved away, he saw a cardboard packing box on the desktop beside the telephone.