Pack

The horses carried the packs across the plain.

We do not ask him to make up his mind, but to make up his pack.

a pack of lies

a pack of complaints

We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.

cut the pack

African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.

If I hurried down to the river, he said, I should be sure to fall in with a pack of wolves, for just as he was driving up the hill close to the sound, they started up the river on the ice.

They form extremely tight flocks, which carpet the ground, giving rise to the descriptive name of "a pack" of knots.

a pack of thieves

"She will try, for she does not know that it is you who dropped the tallow on the shirt; but that can only be done by Christian folks, and not by a pack of trolls like we have in this place; and so I will say that I will not have anybody else for a bride except the one who can wash the shirt clean, and I know you can do that."

In London there are some thirty gangs of “bovver birds,” violence-prone girls who roam the streets in packs attacking almost any vulnerable object for no apparent reason other than the sheer thrill of it.

The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.

And now they came to the edge of the pack, and beyond it they could see Shiny Wall looming, through mist, and snow, and storm. But the pack rolled horribly upon the swell, and the ice giants fought and roared, and leapt upon each other's backs, and ground each other to powder […]

That stupid pack did nothing but stare at us throughout the whole project.

The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback.

If the pack wasn't pummelling England, Handre Pollard kept delivering telling blows.

“Carlo, I told you that three packs a day would kill you long before I was gone.”

to pack goods in a box;  to pack fish

strange materials wound up in that shape and texture, and packed together with wonderful art in the several cavities of the skull

Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed

to pack a trunk;  the play, or the audience, packs the theater

By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

The mix of ballet vocabulary, modern techniques and African steps is familiar, but the extent to which Mr. Rhoden packs — and overpacks — phrases, cultivates warp-speed delivery and hyperextends every possible hip jut and arabesque is, thank goodness, something special to Complexions.

The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.

to pack a joint;  to pack the piston of a steam engine;  pack someone's arm with ice.

the goods pack conveniently;  wet snow packs well

the grouse or the perch begin to pack

Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.

to pack a jury

The expected council was dwindling into[…]a packed assembly of Italian bishops.

This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.

to pack a horse

our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey

to pack a boy off to school

Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.

Poor Stella must pack off to town.

You shall pack, / And never more darken my doors again.

packing heat

A: What was he packing? B: He was packing an M1911 with a custom large-capacity magazine.

Wow, get a load of him — he's packing.

I am a butch bisexual woman […] Frequently I like to appear as masculine as I can, often passing for male on the street. […] Sometimes I pack when I go out, putting my dildo in my pants and wearing my dick out of the house.