| 释义 |
† packald Obs.
Also 5 pakald.
[f. pack n.1
The nature of the suffix is not clear: Jamieson suggests a corruption of -et in packet, and compares fagald for faggot. But the first quot. is earlier than any we have of packet.]
A pack, bundle; a burden, load; a packet.
c1440York Myst. xviii. 160 Þis pakald bere me bus, Of all I plege and pleyne me. 1516Inv. R. Wardrobe (1815) 25 Item ane pakkald of lettrez with ane obligatioun with vi soverties for Alexander Boid for the landis of Kilmarnok. 1637Rutherford Let. to Laird of Cally Lett. (1671) 257 O how loath we are to forgoe our packalds and burdens. |