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- n. Plural form of packthread.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 like exorbitances.
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And to this purpose several packthreads were let down with small weights at the bottom.
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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.
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Gulliver, in Lilliput, tied down by a thousand packthreads.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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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.
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And to this purpose, several packthreads were let down, with small weights at the bottom.
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And is the wholesome image of Annette Funicello spoiled for Italian mouseketeers who know about the tormento dei funicelli, or ` torture of the packthreads, 'in which 15th-century Neopolitans painfully lashed together the wrists and forearms of their prisoners?
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On thefe packthreads the people ftrung their petitions, which mounted up di - reftly, like the Icraps of paper faftened by fchool-boys at the end of the ftring that holds their kite.
The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
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a mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than packthreads, to say nothing further concerning the rest of their persons.
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