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What does hardpack mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc.
  2. (countable) A hard package, especially of cigarettes.
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Field reports indicate that the new cutting edge here pictured performs exceptionally well in rock, shale, limestone, hardpack clay, sandstone and other tight formations.
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.
Outside, Billy broke the cellophane on a hardpack of Marlboro Reds, tore out the foil, and extracted a cigarette.
Unlike powder, hardpack permits great speed. Where powder is sluggish, crudely transmitting your body movements to the snow, hardpack is the snow of precision.

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