Definitions for Packer

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Packer pack·er

Spelling: [pak-er]

IPA: /ˈpæk ər/

Packer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in Packer (acekpr).

Definitions for Packer

noun

1. a person or thing that packs.
2. a person who engages in packing as an occupation or business, especially a person who packs food for market:
3. a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person:
4. a definite quantity or standard measure of something wrapped up or otherwise assembled for merchandising (sometimes used in combination):
5. the quantity of something that is packaged, canned, or the like, at one time, in one season, etc.:
6. a group of people or things:
7. a group of certain animals of the same kind, especially predatory ones:
8. Hunting. a number of hounds, especially foxhounds and beagles, regularly used together in a hunt.
9. a complete set of playing cards, usually 52 in number; deck.
10. backpack.
11. a considerable area of pieces of floating ice driven or packed together.
12. Metalworking. a pile of metal sheets for hot-rolling together.
13. Medicine/Medical. a wrapping of the body in wet or dry clothes for therapeutic purposes. the cloths so used. Obsolete. the state of being so wrapped.
14. Mining. Also called pack wall. a rubble wall for supporting a roof. any of various other roof supports of timber, timber and rubble, or rubble and wire mesh.
15. a cosmetic material, usually of a pastelike consistency, applied either to the face or to the hair and scalp:
16. pac2 (def 1).
17. Obsolete. a plot; conspiracy.
18. Obsolete. a low or worthless person.

Idioms

1. pack it in, to give up; abandon one's efforts: to cease being a nuisance.

adjective

1. transporting, or used in transporting, a pack or load:
2. compressed into a pack; packed.
3. used in or adapted for packing:
4. Chiefly Scot. (of animals) tame.
5. Scot. very friendly or intimate.

Verb phrases

1. pack in/up, to relinquish or give up; quit:
2. pack off/away, to dispatch: to leave hastily.

verb (used with object)

1. to make into a pack or bundle.
2. to form into a group or compact mass.
3. to fill with anything compactly arranged:
4. to put into or arrange compactly in a trunk, valise, etc., as for traveling or storage:
5. to press or crowd together within; cram:
6. to prepare for marketing by putting into containers or packages:
7. to make airtight, vaportight, or watertight by stuffing:
8. to cover or envelop with something pressed closely around.
9. to load, as with packs:
10. to carry or wear, especially as part of one's usual equipment:
11. Informal. to deliver (a powerful blow, strong message, etc.):
12. to treat with a therapeutic pack.

verb (used without object)

1. to pack goods in compact form, as for transportation or storage (often followed by up).
2. to place clothes and personal items in a suitcase, trunk, etc., preparatory to traveling.
3. to be capable of or suitable for compact storage or packing for transportation:
4. to crowd together, as persons:
5. to become compacted:
6. to collect into a group:

Origin of Packer

Middle English word dating back to 1325-75; See origin at pack¹, -er¹

Examples for Packer

In Cosmopolis, packer Capital uses complex fractal modeling, based on patterns in nature, to map data in the markets.

“That packer is rather fine, considered as a muscular animal,” she said.

And the packer, shaking with laughter, turned again to the chair he had been wrapping.

"This is where you boys got astray, I reckon," said Mr. packer.

Freshway Foods A fresh produce processor and packer, Freshway Logistics is a for-hire carrier of mainly refrigerated products.

Lisle looked at Jake, and the packer smiled in a significant manner.

packer writes about these people and their milieus beautifully and precisely; respectfully and, when warranted, critically.

Turning his back on the Israelite, Scarlett gave all his attention to the packer.

packer saved the literary aspirations for other aspects of the book, and those work less well.

It now seems packer may have also tired of the money-hungry church.