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packer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun packer has 3 senses
- packer(n = noun.person) bagger, boxer - a workman employed to pack things into containers; Array is a kind of working man, working person, workingman, workman
- packer(n = noun.person) meat packer - a wholesaler in the meat-packing business; Array is a kind of jobber, middleman, wholesaler
- packer(n = noun.person) backpacker - a hiker who wears a backpack; Array is a kind of hiker, tramp, tramper
Derived form verb pack1
has particulars: gustavus franklin swift, swift
Derived form verb pack8
Derived form verb pack8
CIDE DICTIONARY
packer, n.
- A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation or for the market; as, a pork packer. [1913 Webster]
- A ring of packing or a special device to render gas-tight and water-tight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
packer, n. a person or thing that packs, esp. a dealer who prepares and packs food for transportation and sale.
ROGET THESAURUS
packer
Preparation
N preparation, providing, provision, providence, anticipation, precaution, preconcertation, predisposition, forecast, rehearsal, note of preparation, arrangement, clearance, adjustment, tuning, equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array, ripening, maturation, evolution, elaboration, concoction, digestion, gestation, batching, incubation, sitting, groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone, foundation, scaffold, scaffolding, echafaudage, training, inurement, novitiate, cooking, cookery, brewing, culinary art, tilling, plowing sowing, semination, cultivation, preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness, maturity, un impromptu fait a loisir, preparer, trainer, pioneer, trailblazer, avant-courrier, avant-coureur, voortrekker, sappers and miners, pavior, navvy, packer, stevedore, warming pan, preparing, in preparation, in course of preparation, in agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train, afoot, afloat, on foot, on the stocks, on the anvil, under consideration, brewing, batching, forthcoming, brooding, in store for, in reserve, precautionary, provident, preparative, preparatory, provisional, inchoate, under revision, preliminary, prepared, in readiness, ready, ready to one's band, ready made, ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table, in gear, in working order, in working gear, snug, in practice, ripe, mature, mellow, pukka, practiced, labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up, in full feather, in best bib and tucker, in harness, at harness, in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint, up in arms, armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie, sword in hand, booted and spurred, in utrumque paratus, semper paratus, on the alert, at one's post, in preparation, in anticipation of, against, for, abroach, a bove majori discit arare minor, looking before and after, si vis pacem para bellum.
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