pack
Pronunciation: /pæk/
The English word “pack” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A multitude.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A full set of playing cards
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or living together.
- A group of wolves, hunting together.
- A flock of knots.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- A shook of cask staves.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A package of cigarettes.
Etymology
From Middle English pak, pakke, from Old English *pæcca and/or Middle Dutch pak, packe; both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pakkō, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack”). Cognate with Dutch pak (“pack”), Low German Pack (“pack”), German Pack (“pack”), Swedish packe (“pack”), Icelandic pakka, pakki (“package”).
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