hardpack

Definitions

1. A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc.
   uncountable
2. A hard package, especially of cigarettes.
   countable

Examples

“The muzzle was filled for some inches with hardpack snow⟳, after he had dug that out with his knife, he found the lock⟳ frozen up and snow⟳ all over the nipple.”

“Field reports indicate⟳ that the new cutting edge here pictured performs exceptionally well in rock, shale, limestone, hardpack clay, sandstone and other tight formations.”

“Unlike powder, hardpack permits great speed⟳ (no spiny arms on those balls of ice to drag⟳ on your ski bottom). Where powder is sluggish, crudely transmitting your body movements to the snow⟳, hardpack is the snow⟳ of precision.”

“That's where she met Vic--tall, hawkfaced, blackhaired, wearing tight Levis and a black T-shirt with the pocket over his heart stretched around a hardpack box of Parliaments.”

“Anderson came over to me and I noticed his ammo bandoliers were full of Marlboro hardpacks.”

“Outside, Billy broke the cellophane on a hardpack of Marlboro Reds, tore out the foil, and extracted a cigarette.”

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