packing

noun

The act or process of one that packs.

noun

The processing and packaging of manufactured products, especially food products.

noun

A material used to prevent leakage or seepage, as around a pipe joint.

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The insertion of gauze or other material into a body cavity or wound for therapeutic purposes.

noun

The material so used; a pack.

noun

Collusion; trickery; cheating.

noun

Any material used for filling an empty space, closing a joint, and the like; stuffing, as the filling of a piston or a well-tube.

noun

In printing, the fabric used on printing-presses between the iron platen or cylinder and the sheet to be printed.

noun

In masonry, small stones embedded in mortar, employed to fill up the vacant spaces in the middle of walls; rubble.