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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1488-1617, 1673
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Pak-thred, -threid, n. Also: pake-thred, pak-thrid, pack(e)-threid, -threed. [ME. paktrede (north., 1341), pacthred (1392–3), packethrede (1442), e.m.E. packthre(a)d (1592).] Packthread; stout thread or twine as used for tying up packs or bundles.1374 Exchequer Rolls II. 468.]
[De vij libris … pakfili 1488 Lanark B. Rec. 3.
Fulye and pak threid 1499 Edinb. Hammermen in Mill Mediæval Plays 227.
For pak threid to knyt on the flouris & to the candilheidis 1505–6 Treasurer's Accounts III. 180.
Item, for pak threid and tua bowstringis deliverit to Johne Forman, xvj d. 1507 Ib. IV. 29; etc.
Pak thred 1533 Edinb. Hammermen 138 b.
For pak thrid j d. 1537 Treasurer's Accounts VI. 329 (see Pak-nedill n.). 1554–5 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 146.
For thre skanȝies of pakthreid to be lynnis and calk to the wrychts 1569–70 Haddington Treas. Acc. MS.
For ane hanke of pake thred to be a lyne, vj d. 1606 Edinburgh Testaments XLI. 317 b.
Thretie twa dosen clewis pakthreid at 2 s. the dosen 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 323.
Packthreid called boddome threid 1617 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II. 89.
For pack threid iij li., for tailȝeour threid and neidles xviij s. 1673 Leith Customs 29.
250 pounds packe threed [£1.5.0.]
