Usage examples (35)

• This accomplished, the tree was bound up with packthread, and as the bark healed, so it was said the child would recover.
• You must know, I made a second excursion to these antient ruins, and measured the arena of the amphitheatre with packthread.
• Then have new bags, wash them first in warm water, and then in cold, wring them dry, and being ready strung with packthread on sticks, hang them on
• His shoes were newly greased, and ornamented with a pair of rusty iron buckles; the packthread at his knees had been renewed; and where he wanted buttons, he wore pins.