▪ I. packsaddle, n.
(ˈpækˌsæd(ə)l)
[f. pack n.1 + saddle n.; cf. Du. pakzadel (Kilian packsadel), Ger. packsattel.]
1. A saddle adapted for supporting a pack or packs to be carried by a pack-beast.
| 1388 Wyclif 2 Macc. iii. 27 In a pakke sadil ether hors litir. 1530 Palsgr. 250/2 Packesadyll, batz, bas. 1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. iv, Born for the manger, pannier, or pack-saddle. 1641 Milton Ch. Govt. ii. (1851) 149 Ye may take off their packsaddles, their days work is don. 1772 Nugent tr. Hist. Fr. Gerund. I. 348 He will as much apply to scholastic studies as it now rains pack⁓saddles. 1859 Marcy Prairie Trav. iv. 98 The Mexicans use a leathern pack-saddle without a tree. |
2. Short for pack-saddle roof: see 3.
| 1848 B. Webb Continental Eccles. 130 A point commands eight spires at once: two being pack-saddles. |
3. attrib. and Comb., as ˈpacksaddle-ˌmaker; packsaddle roof (see quot.); so packsaddle tower.
| 1599 Minsheu Sp. Dict., A Packe-saddle maker,..albardero. 1720 Lond. Gaz. No. 5904/4 William Milward, Pack⁓saddle-maker. 1845 Parker Gloss. Archit. (ed. 4) I. 381 A very common..termination [of the church towers in Normandy] is a pack-saddle roof with gables on two sides. 1848 Rickman Archit. App. 43 The tower on two sides has high gables, and is roofed from these with a common house ridge roof. This sort of roof is called a pack-saddle roof. |
▪ II. packsaddle, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. To convey on a packsaddle.
| 1912 Red Mag. Mar. 508/1 They had a burro on another ledge of the estate, which packsaddled things in from where the stage dropped them. |