Pack

The packing (of Latin stupa, - ae ) is a fibrous by-product not woven resulting primarily from the work of the hemp or flax.

This by-product with always have certain uses:

In the construction of the Boat X in Wood, the packing is for a long time used to clog the interstice S between the boards to make the boat tight, to see (Calfatage).
It was used for the manufacture of wick S of Fusil, from where the probable origin of the name “of étoupille” given to the modern artifice intended to put fire at the ammunition of Artillerie, the pyrotechnical articles or the Fusée S with solid fuel.
One a long time used it as well as in the construction of boats, to return seals the passages through partitions. The name of Presse-étoupe remained with a whole variety of systems intended to ensure the sealing as well as a minimum of held mechanical with any cable, tubes, crossing a watertight bulkhead or not.
One also uses this word during the crowning of the Pape: to see Sic transit gloria mundi .

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