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A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds. Simmonds.

One who ropes goods; a packer.

owage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage. [Obs.]

purchasers regarding its value. [Cant] -- To salt away, To salt down, to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight. [Eng.]

A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc. [Written also sarpelere.] Tyrwhitt.

A word used to emphasize a statement. [Obs.] Out she shall pack, with a sassarara. Goldsmith.

A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] Mayhew.

generation; birth. Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller. Seed bag (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. -- Seed bud…

ake him out of my company. Bunyan. To shake a cask (Naut.), to knock a cask to pieces and pack the staves. -- To shake hands, to perform the customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc. -- To shake out a reef (Naut.), to untile the reef poi…

A game like California Jack, except that the pack drawn from is turned face down.

r, a joiner who works upon ships. -- Ship letter, a letter conveyed by a ship not a mail packet. -- Ship money (Eng. Hist.), an imposition formerly charged on the ports, towns, cities, boroughs, and counties, of England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for the king's service. The attempt made by Charles I.…

A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

hrow into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler.

A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.

To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.

A card game played with the full pack ranking as at whist, each player declaring for which of seven different points he proposes to play.

That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops. [Obs.] Halliwell.

ock at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.