packing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PACK'ING, participle present tense Laying together in close order; binding in a bundle; putting in barrels with salt, etc.; uniting, as men for a fraudulent purpose. PACK'ING, noun A trick; collusion.
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