packsaddlen.
/ˈpakˌsadl/, U.S. /ˈpækˌsæd(ə)l/ 1. A saddle adapted to support a pack or packs for transportation by a pack animal.sawbuck packsaddle: see sawbuck n. 1b.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > types of saddle
mail-saddle1360
trotter-saddle1381
panel1393
loadsaddle1397
packsaddle1398
limber-saddle1480
pillion1480
side-saddle1493
steel saddle1503
pilgate1511
mail pillowc1532
stock-saddle1537
pad1556
sunk1568
trunk-saddle1569
soda1586
mail pillion1586
running saddle1596
Scotch saddle1596
postilion saddle1621
pad-saddle1622
portmanteau-saddle1681
watering saddle1681
cart-saddle1692
demi-pique1695
crook-saddle1700
saddle pad1750
recado1825
aparejo1844
mountain saddle1849
somerset1851
pilch1863
cowboy saddle1880
sawbuck (pack)saddle1881
western saddle1883
cross-saddle1897
centre-fire1921
McClellan1940
poley1957
1398 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 250 (MED) Lego Willielmo Pafute famulo meo..j paksadyll.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Macc. iii. 27 Thei..castiden out hym, putte in a pakke sadil [c1384 E.V.v.r. beringe sadil; L. sella gestatoria], ether hors litir.
1445 in P. E. Jones Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1954) V. 79 (MED) [2] pacsadylles [with] gyrthis, [16 d.].
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 250/2 Packesadyll, batz, bas.
1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. v, in Wks. I. 17 Borne for the manger, pannier, or pack-saddle!
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 41 Ye may take off their packsaddles, their days work is don.
1747 Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875–93) 241 Horse bell and pack saddle £3.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 348 He will as much apply to scholastic studies as it now rains pack~saddles.
1890 N. P. Langford Vigilante Days I. xvi. 224 They at once set to work to manufacture pack-saddles and other gear.
1922 Beaver Nov. 58/1 Pack saddles are made like saddle-bags and hang over the back of the animal, being lashed under the belly.
1965 P. St. Pierre Boss Namko Drive (1970) 28 In the rawhide boxes lashed to their packsaddles they carried most of the grub..and assorted gear that the drive would need during the next few weeks.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally
vaulta1387
plat-roofa1425
pend1454
faunsere1460
compassed roofa1552
terrace1572
sotie1578
crown1588
arch-roof1594
arch1609
under-roof1611
concameration1644
voltoa1660
hip roof1663
French roof1669
oversail1673
jerkinhead1703
mansard1704
curb-roof1733
shed roof1736
gable roof1759
gambrel roof1761
living roof1792
pent roof1794
span-roof1823
wagon-head1823
azotea1824
rafter roof1825
rooflet1825
wagon-vault1835
bell-roof1842
spire-roof1842
cradle-roof1845
packsaddle roof1845
open roof1847
umbrella roof1847
gambrel1848
packsaddle1848
compass-roof1849
saddleback1849
saddle roof1850
curbed roof1866
wagon-roof1866
saw-tooth roof1900
trough roof1905
skillion roof1911
north-light roof1923
shell roof1954
green roof1984
knee-roof-
1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 130 A point commands eight spires at once: two being pack-saddles.
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C1.
packsaddle-maker n.
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1599 J. Minsheu Dict. Eng. & Spanish in Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. (at cited word) A Packe-saddle maker,..albardero.
1720 London Gaz. No. 5904/4 William Milward, Pack~saddle-maker.
1999 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 24 Jan. 6 Emilia Kaczorowska, 36, is the daughter of a packsaddle-maker from Silesia in Western Poland.
C2. † packsaddle roof n. Obsolete a roof, as on a church tower, which resembles a packsaddle; = saddleback n. 4.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally
vaulta1387
plat-roofa1425
pend1454
faunsere1460
compassed roofa1552
terrace1572
sotie1578
crown1588
arch-roof1594
arch1609
under-roof1611
concameration1644
voltoa1660
hip roof1663
French roof1669
oversail1673
jerkinhead1703
mansard1704
curb-roof1733
shed roof1736
gable roof1759
gambrel roof1761
living roof1792
pent roof1794
span-roof1823
wagon-head1823
azotea1824
rafter roof1825
rooflet1825
wagon-vault1835
bell-roof1842
spire-roof1842
cradle-roof1845
packsaddle roof1845
open roof1847
umbrella roof1847
gambrel1848
packsaddle1848
compass-roof1849
saddleback1849
saddle roof1850
curbed roof1866
wagon-roof1866
saw-tooth roof1900
trough roof1905
skillion roof1911
north-light roof1923
shell roof1954
green roof1984
knee-roof-
1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms 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 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
packsaddlev.
/ˈpakˌsadl/, U.S. /ˈpækˌsæd(ə)l/ rare.
transitive. To transport on a packsaddle. Also figurative.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey on packsaddle or pack-horse
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packsaddle1912
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.
1995 Austin (Texas) American-Statesman (Nexis) 23 Sept. c2 William Earl and I packsaddled him into my office, where we talked about friends in happier times.
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