† barˈdel(le Obs. rare.
[a. F. bardelle (= It. bardella): see bard n.2]
A pack-saddle.
| 1603 Florio Montaigne i. xlviii. (1632) 158 There is nothing accounted more base..than to use saddles or bardels. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Bardelle..denotes a saddle made in form of a great saddle, but only of cloth stuffed with straw, and tied tight down with packthread, without either leather, wood or iron. |