packer

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that packs: a packer of boxes in a warehouse.
2. n. One whose occupation is the processing and packing of wholesale goods, usually meat products: meat packers.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who packs; specifically, a person whose business it is to pack goods for transportation.
2. n. One who prepares and packs provisions, as beef, pork, oysters, fruit, etc., for preservation or for market.
3. n. A machine used for packing.
4. n. One who is engaged in transporting goods, etc., on pack-animals.
5. n. A government officer charged with the inspection of provisions packed for export.
6. n. 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.
7. n. 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.
8. n. Same as pack-animal.
9. n. 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.
10. n. In a type-setting machine, an assembler.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer or a household goods packer.
2. n. computing A software program that compresses code or data.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation or for the market.
2. n. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
2. n. a hiker who wears a backpack
3. n. a workman employed to pack things into containers