Packing

1. The act or process of one who packs.
2. Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.
3. (Masonry) Same as Filling.
4. A trick; collusion.
1. A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.
2. The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.
3. A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.
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.
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
1. A large cloth for packing goods
2. A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.