Pack"ing, n.
1.
The act or process of one who packs.
2.
Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.
Specifically Mach.:
A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious
; as: (a)
A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint
. (b)
The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides
. (c)
A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.
3. Masonry
Same as Filling.
[Rare in the U. S.]
4.
A trick; collusion.
[Obs.]
Bale.
Cherd packing Bridge Building, the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. -- Packing ring. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston. -- Packing sheet. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.
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