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▪ 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.
1388Wyclif 2 Macc. iii. 27 In a pakke sadil ether hors litir. 1530Palsgr. 250/2 Packesadyll, batz, bas. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. iv, Born for the manger, pannier, or pack-saddle. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. (1851) 149 Ye may take off their packsaddles, their days work is don. 1772Nugent tr. Hist. Fr. Gerund. I. 348 He will as much apply to scholastic studies as it now rains pack⁓saddles. 1859Marcy Prairie Trav. iv. 98 The Mexicans use a leathern pack-saddle without a tree.
2. Short for pack-saddle roof: see 3.
1848B. 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.
1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., A Packe-saddle maker,..albardero. 1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5904/4 William Milward, Pack⁓saddle-maker. 1845Parker 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. 1848Rickman 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.
1912Red Mag. Mar. 508/1 They had a burro on another ledge of the estate, which packsaddled things in from where the stage dropped them. |