Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A means of reducing the temperature in fever by wrapping the body in cloths wet with cold water, and covering these with a blanket or other dry material.
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Examples
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A few minutes later, sobbing heavily, the elder woman lay in bed, across her forehead and eyes a wet-pack of towel for easement of the headache she and Saxon tacitly accepted as substitute for the brain-storm.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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A few minutes later, sobbing heavily, the elder woman lay in bed, across her forehead and eyes a wet-pack of towel for easement of the headache she and Saxon tacitly accepted as substitute for the brain-storm.
Chapter 9 1913
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"We've been using the ice-pack and wet-pack to bring down the temperature in place of the cold bath," the doctor explained.
A Man's Woman Frank Norris 1886
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The package consists of 84 different full-case food varieties, to include the best freeze dried entrees, wet-pack meats, salt, spices, coffee beans, comfort foods, and more.
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The package consists of 84 different full-case food varieties, to include the best freeze dried entrees, wet-pack meats, salt, spices, coffee beans, comfort foods, and more.
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The package consists of 84 different full-case food varieties, to include the best freeze dried entrees, wet-pack meats, salt, spices, coffee beans, comfort foods, and more.
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Babyface didn't know what kind of nursing training he'd had but he was a mean man with a wet-pack and a needle ....
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum 8
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