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[ A wild region of tumbled hills, traversed but by a few pack-roads. J. R. Green, Making of Eng., p. 61. pack-saddle (pak's ad"l), n. The saddle of a pack-animal, made to be loaded with packs or burdens, and furnished with straps, hooks, and rings sewed to it for securing the packs. Such saddles are variously fitted according to the nature of the pack, which may consist of provisions or utensils, arms or ammunition, or even wounded men. Your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion, or to be entombed in an a 's Shak ., Cor., ii. 1. 99. pack - saddle . O, packstaff rhymes! Why not, when court of stars shall see these crimes? Marston, Scourge of Villainy, i. 42.] twine used for sewing up packages or bales, or for tying up parcels. A woman's crupper of velure,... here and there pieced with packthread . Shak ., T. of the S., iii. 2. 64. You may take me in with a walking-stick, Even when you please, and hold me with a pack - thread . Fletcher , Beggar's Bush, v. 1. I slid down by a bottom of packthread into the street, and so 'scaped. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 4.