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packthread
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "packthread":- He was a man who did not spare himself, yet of a temperament that kicked at useless labour, and of a size that forbade the idea of compulsion, but George Dally could have led him with a packthread to do anything. - "The Settler and the Savage", R.M. Ballantyne.
- He went down, and returned by the help of a clue of packthread, and made this report: 'That after having passed through a great number of vaults he came into a long narrow place, along which having travelled, as far as he could guess, for the space of a mile, he saw a little gleam of light. - "Strange Pages from Family Papers", T. F. Thiselton Dyer.
- Her brother advised her to try platted packthread instead of hemp for the soles; and she found that this looked more neat than the hemp soles, and was likely to last longer. - "The Parent's Assistant", Maria Edgeworth.