A packer is a worker whose job is to pack things into containers.
Norma Jones worked as a packer in a local chemical factory.
packer in British English
(ˈpækə)
noun
1.
a person or company whose business is to pack goods, esp food
a meat packer
2.
a person or machine that packs
packer in American English
(ˈpækər)
noun
a person or thing that packs
; specif.,
a.
a person who packs goods for preservation, transportation, or sale
b. US
a person who owns or manages a packing house
c. US
a person who transports goods on pack animals
packer in the Oil and Gas Industry
(pækər)
Word forms: (regular plural) packers
noun
(Extractive engineering: Field development, Operations)
A packer is a device that makes a seal against the wall of the casing or open borehole, by the application of pneumatic, mechanical, or hydraulic pressure.
The packer is run on the casing and expanded against the wall of the borehole at the properdepth by hydraulic pressure or fluid pressure from the well.
Packers are run on the tubing or the casing and when in position can be expanded mechanicallyor hydraulically against the pipe wall or the wall of the well bore.
A packer is a device that makes a seal against the wall of the casing or open borehole, bythe application of pneumatic, mechanical, or hydraulic pressure.
formation packer
Examples of 'packer' in a sentence
packer
Oh -- Cerise at the ceramics place is looking for a packer.
Scarlett Thomas GOING OUT (2002)
Tatiana said, "The paratroopers go to the parachute packer.
Paullina Simons THE BRONZE HORSEMAN (2002)
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British English: packer NOUN
A packer is a worker whose job is to pack things into containers.
She worked as a packer in a local chemical factory.