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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(uncountable) A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc..
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.
Use hardpack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hardpack means (uncountable) A material (such as dirt, gravel, or snow) compressed into a hard, smooth surface for roads etc..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include softpack.
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.
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