Crossword clues for packthread
The Collaborative International Dictionary
packthread \packthread\, pack thread \pack thread\n. A strong three-ply thread or small twine used to sew or tie packs or packages.
Wiktionary
alt. (cx: archaic) A strong thread or twine used in tying up parcels. n. (cx: archaic) A strong thread or twine used in tying up parcels.
WordNet
n. a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages
Usage examples of "packthread".
This packthread must serve you for buckles, and we must take care that there are holes in your shoes and also in your gloves, and as everything must match, as soon as you have put on your chemises you must tear the lace round the neck.
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.
And to this purpose, several packthreads were let down, with small weights at the bottom.
On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.
And to this purpose several packthreads were let down with small weights at the bottom.
On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly like the scraps of paper fastened by school-boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.
He ordered many packthreads to be let down, yet not a person offered to send up a petition, but instead thereof, very bold demands, the redress of all their grievances, great immunities, the choice of their own governor, and other the like exorbitances.