pack

Definitions

• A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
• A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
• A multitude.
• A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
• A full set of playing cards
• The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
• A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
• A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
• A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
• A group of Cub Scouts.
• A shook of cask staves.
• A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
• A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
• (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
• (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
• (snooker) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
• (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.