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▪ I. packer1|ˈpækə(r)|
Also 5 pakker, -our.
[f. pack v.1 + -er1; = Du. pakker (Kilian packer).]
1. One who packs; one who puts up something in a bundle or receptacle; with qualifying adj., one (well or ill) skilled in packing.
1598[see pack v.1 1]. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 328 They were..repacked by..packers of their own. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 2 Some valets are bad packers.
2. spec.
†a. An officer charged with the packing or supervision of the packing of exported goods liable to custom, etc.: cf. packing-officer in packing vbl. n.1 3 and package n. 1. Obs. (The earliest sense: in 14th c. Anglo-L. paccator.)
1353Rolls of Parlt. II. 251/1 Certein noumbre des Portours, Packers, Gwynders, Overours, & autres Laborers des Leines. 1450Ibid. V. 200/1 Surveyours of the serche, Packers or eny other Officers. 1488–9Act 4 Hen. VII, c. 11 No manner of persone beyng sworn to be a wolle pakker. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 14 §2 Euery porte..where no tellers nor packers at this present time be.
b. One whose business or trade it is to pack goods for transportation; one who prepares and packs provisions, as meat, fish, fruit, etc. for future or distant markets.
1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 449 Severall bundles of cloaths..seized at a packers in Coleman street. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1175 Goods had been sent by orders from the vendee to a packer; the packer was considered as a middle man between the vendor and vendee. 1885Manch. Exam. 7 Jan. 5/2 The closing of these markets caused a serious loss to the American breeders and packers.
c. One who packs people in seats.
1898C. Raleigh in Daily News 7 Nov. 2/3 The gentleman called the packer, whose business was to cry, ‘Move up, please; sit closer, please’.
3. a. Now N. Amer. and Austral. (N.Z.). One who transports goods by means of pack-beasts. Also in extended use.
1694Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 216 Burthen-Bearers, Packers. 1788M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1881) I. 402 Here we met a Packer with ten pack-horses. 1859Brit. Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 6 June 2/3 The arrival of over one hundred pack mules from the Chilliwak country, where they have been wintering, and offers by the packers to take freight to Lytton City for eighteen cents, has failed to revive trade. 1874A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences x. 135 The rear [of string of pack⁓horses was] brought up by the packer on horseback, his broad-brimmed wide-a-wake hat pulled well over his weather-beaten face. 1881Cheq. Career 76 A packer offered me higher wages to drive pack-horses down the south coast. 1952H. Innes Campbell's Kingdom 22, I was wakened with the news that the packer was in from Come Lucky and would be leaving after lunch. I was taken out and introduced to a great ox of a man who was loading groceries into an ex-army truck. 1958G. Terry Hist. & Legends of Chilcotin 7 Tom Hutchinson was a packer and worked with a pack train of 300 mules between Yale and Barkerville. 1968R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 101 When they travelled with horses they had, in him, a competent packer.
b. Austral. and Canad. A pack-horse, pack-mule, etc. Also, a pack-dog.
1875Wood & Lapham Waiting for Mail 59 A horse, some old packer he looked like. 1890Melbourne Argus 7 June 4/1 Starting back..from one of the Flemington hotels with his saddle horses and packers. 1908A. C. Laut Conquest Gt. Northwest II. 270 Getting two or three of the wise old bell-mares, that are in every string of packers, at the end of a long rope, the canoemen shot across the whirl of mid-stream and got footing on the opposite shore. 1944J. Martin Canad. Wilderness Trapping 13 In spring and fall when it is impossible to haul your supplies, dogs come in handy as packers.
c. One who transports goods in a pack on his back; also, in more recent use, one who carries a rucksack containing all the necessities of travelling. Chiefly Canad.
1873G. M. Grant Ocean to Ocean 356 We could see that continuous labour for one or two years in solitary wilderness..as surveyor, transit-man..or even packer, is a totally different thing from taking a trip across the continent. 1892E. S. Brookes Frontier Life xiii. 117, I have often watched the packers, who would carry a load of seventy-five pounds on their backs, through a rough survey line for six or seven weeks. 1921A. Heming Drama of Forests 320 Upon the first his companion placed two more packs; then, stooping beneath the weight of 240 pounds, the packers at a jog-trot set off uphill and down, over rugged rocks and fallen timber. 1968R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 29 He was a short, stocky man—the ideal build for a packer—and it was nothing for him to pack a two hundred-pound load over a long portage. 1974Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 9 Mar. 20/3 It is something peculiar to the Spanish that they look on every packer as a hippie-freak—and they don't like hippie freaks.
4. A machine or contrivance used for packing.
1890Cent. Dict., Packer... 7. The variously constructed mechanism by which the grain cut by a reaping-machine is packed or compressed on the binding-table and held till embraced and bound by the twine. 1894Labour Commission Gloss., Packers2, laths used for packing calicoes in bales. 1902Census Bull. (U.S.) No. 216. 28 June 61/1 Types succeed each other in the packer with 3-em space between the words, until a continuous line is formed.
5. A device inserted into an annular space in an oil well (such as that between the casing and the tubing) in order to block the flow of oil and gas. orig U.S.
1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 718/1 An indiarubber packer is then attached in such a manner that within it the pipe that is above it slides in that which is below it, and the rubber is forced against the sides of the drill-hole. 1904Dialect Notes II. 386 When a well has sufficient gas to flow its product through a two-inch pipe, but will not make its production through the casing, a packer is placed at or near the top of the sand to compel the gas or oil to relieve itself only through the tubing. 1922D. T. Day Handbk. Petroleum Industry I. 291 The fundamental principle of all types of packers embodies the vertical compression and lateral expansion of a resilient substance..between casing or tubing and the wall of the hole, between two strings of casing, or between tubing and casing. 1960C. Gatlin Petroleum Engin. xiii. 256/1 The ratio of hole diameter to unexpanded packer diameter is kept as low as possible, and commonly ranges from 1·1 to 1·2. 1973J. W. Jenner in Hobson & Pohl Mod. Petroleum Technol. (ed. 4) iv. 141 In some areas where the wells are not easily accessible..a packer is run on the tubing and set just above the pay zone. Completion fluid of high enough density to kill the well is contained in the annulus above the packer and production is via the tubing. 1977Sunday Times 24 Apr. 17/4 The plug is called a packer, and it blocks off the bottom of the outer casing.
Hence packership, the office of a packer: see 2 a.
1495Letter Bk. City of London I. lf. 317 b, Thoffices of Pakkership and Gawgership of the said Citee.
▪ II. packer2
[f. pack v.2 + -er1.]
One who ‘packs’ cards, juries, etc.; † a confederate in a fraudulent design, a conspirator, plotter.
1586Newton tr. Daneau's Diceplay vi, As many foysting coseners and deceiptfull packers in playing..use to do. 1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., Barajador, a packer of cards, a shufler of cards. 1771T. Hull Sir W. Harrington (1797) II. 165 A packer is one who is in league with a parcel of smart young fellows that are rather destitute of fortune, and for that reason are pushing for everything which can make it. 1807E. S. Barrett Rising Sun I. 95 Associating with Coggers of dice, packers of Cards. 1905W. O'Brien Recoll. 295 Mr. Peter O'Brien..afterwards earned the titles of Lord O'Brien of Kilfenora and..‘Pether the Packer’. |