Definition of Packeng
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Present participle of pack.
packing- Present participle of pack.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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