packthread

In falling, Bill had struck the chain-span of the weather-quarter davits, breaking it as if it had been packthread.

The patron saint, thought I to myself, can make gold lace out of packthread.

Peggy and Anne platted the packthread, and basted the vamps and linings together ready for her.

I thought so too, and grew the warmer at being unable to find a wisp of osier or a roll of packthread in the house.

In building the nest, a long piece of packthread had been somewhat loosely woven in.