Usually means: Strong, thin string for binding.
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  1. packthread: Merriam-Webster
  2. packthread: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. packthread: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. packthread: Collins English Dictionary
  5. packthread: Vocabulary.com
  6. Packthread, packthread: Wordnik
  7. packthread: Wiktionary
  8. packthread: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. packthread: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. packthread: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. packthread: Dictionary.com
  12. packthread: Rhymezone
  13. packthread: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. packthread: FreeDictionary.org
  15. packthread: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. packthread: TheFreeDictionary.com

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  (archaic) A strong thread or twine used in tying up parcels.

Similar:
thread-paper, twine, string, thred, thread, pirn, threadmaking, bottom, woof, purfile, more...

Types:
cotton, linen, silk, polyester, nylon, more...

Adjectives:
common, small, strong, fine, wet, diplomatic, ordinary, moist, thin, stout

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Similar:
thread-paper, twine, string, thred, thread, pirn, threadmaking, bottom, woof, purfile, more...

Types:
cotton, linen, silk, polyester, nylon, more...

Adjectives:
common, small, strong, fine, wet, diplomatic, ordinary, moist, thin, stout



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