packsaddle

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Wrapped like a package, the bundle is tied with manty rope and lashed to each side of a Decker-style packsaddle.

From Washington Times • Aug. 19, 2017

He pointed out a burly fellow in a shiny red shirtcloak, who was busy at chewing out one of the young men for the way he'd put a packsaddle on his beast.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Bags for sleeping in; saddle-bags; bags carried over saddle; on packsaddle; to tie the mouth of.

From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Galton, Francis, Sir

The more civilised make up of canvass or "gunny bags" stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal's back.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

There were some who dragged a heavy chain about with them, and others carried a packsaddle; some had their heads always in a bushel—the best people in the world to live with.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by