pack
noun
[ pak ]
• a small cardboard or paper container and the items contained within it.
• "a pack of cigarettes"
• a group of wild animals, especially wolves, living and hunting together.
• "a pack of wolves will encircle an ailing prey"
• a rucksack.
• "we picked up our packs and trudged off"
• an expanse of large pieces of floating ice driven together into a nearly continuous mass, as occurs in polar seas.
• a hot or cold pad of absorbent material, especially as used for treating an injury.
pack
verb
• fill (a suitcase or bag) with clothes and other items needed for travel.
• "I packed a bag and left"
• cram a large number of things into.
• "it was a large room, packed with beds jammed side by side"
• carry (a gun).
• "he packs a gun and keeps it at the ready"
Origin:
Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pak (noun), pakken (verb). The verb appears early in Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman French in connection with the wool trade; trade in English wool was chiefly with the Low Countries.
pack
verb
• fill (a jury, committee, etc.) with people likely to support a particular verdict or decision.
• "his efforts to pack the Supreme Court with men who shared his ideology"
Origin:
early 16th century (in the sense ‘enter into a private agreement’): probably from the obsolete verb pact ‘enter into an agreement with’, the final -t being interpreted as an inflection of the past tense.
