Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that packs.
- noun One whose occupation is the processing and packing of wholesale goods, usually meat products.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who packs; specifically, a person whose business it is to pack goods for transportation.
- noun One who prepares and packs provisions, as beef, pork, oysters, fruit, etc., for preservation or for market.
- noun A machine used for packing.
- noun One who is engaged in transporting goods, etc., on pack-animals.
- noun A government officer charged with the inspection of provisions packed for export.
- noun A ring by which the space between the tubing and the walls of an oil-well is closed and made gas-tight. See
oil-well packing , under packing. - noun The variously constructed mechanism by which the grain cut by a reaping-machine is packed or compressed on the binding-table and held till embraced and bound by the twine.
- noun Same as
pack-animal . - noun One who packs juries, cards, facts, etc., to serve purposes of his own; one who is a confederate in fraudulent enterprises. Compare
pack , transitive verb, 8. - noun In a type-setting machine, an assembler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation or for the market.
- noun United States 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person whose
business is topack things; especially, one who packs food forpreservation ; as, a pork packer or a household goods packer. - noun computing A
software program thatcompresses code or data.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
- noun a hiker who wears a backpack
- noun a workman employed to pack things into containers
Etymologies
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Examples
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Driller 3 that is drilling the relief well hasn't disconnected, but they've put a subsea containment device they call a packer into the well to protect it. "
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The packer was a taciturn inhabitant of the wilds who seldom indulged in an unnecessary remark.
The Long Portage Harold Bindloss 1905
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How the books (not having been chosen with reference to this great event) were of awkward sizes, and did not make comfortable paving for the bottom of the trunk; whilst folded stockings may be called the packer's delight, from their usefulness to fill up corners.
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A packer is a program that can compress and obfuscate a target program.
CNET News.com 2011
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"Expecting the packer to do it is crazy - the packer is the processor, not the producer."
unknown title 2009
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I wonder if they thought the packer was an idiot, too, or they just didn’t notice.
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For twenty years, William had served in the capacity of a "packer" under Messrs. Turner and White, who held a deed for William as their legal property.
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The briskets you buy in Texas are usually what is known as a packer cut — this means that it’s the full chest muscle (yes, brisket is bovine breast meat) and it’s usually covered in a generous layer of fat and weighs anywhere from seven to 11 pounds.
My oven-baked brisket | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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The briskets you buy in Texas are usually what is known as a packer cut — this means that it’s the full chest muscle (yes, brisket is bovine breast meat) and it’s usually covered in a generous layer of fat and weighs anywhere from seven to 11 pounds.
Archive 2008-12-01 Homesick Texan 2008
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The last "packer" managed to avoid the toilet for a record 16 days.
BBC News - Home 2011
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