Sentence:  By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was <WSD>packed</WSD>, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.