packware

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pack +‎ -ware

Noun[edit]

packware (uncountable)

  1. Goods carried in a pack, especially those for sale by a peddler.
    • 1855, Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen: Melville-Young, page 470:
      [] when he again set out on his former route, carrying with him a plentiful supply of copies, for the benefit of those who might prefer poetry to packware.