or pickback, pick-a-pack, pickpack, adv. (colloquial).—On the back or shoulders: as a pack.
1558. FOXE, Acts and Monuments [CATTLEY (1843), i. 30]. Carried PICK-BACK on men’s shoulders.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes. Disdossa, alla disdossa, loosely on ones backe, a PICK-A-PACK.
1663. BUTLER, Hudibras, I. ii. 72. Mounted a PICK-BACK.
1665. Homer-à-la-mode [NARES].
| Some two or three meet in a hole | |
| Together, their state to condole, | |
| Yet none of them knowes what they lack, | |
| Unlesse they’d be brought home PICK-PACK. |
1677. E. RAVENSCROFT, The Wrangling Lovers, 10. Ile have her to him, tho it be on PICK-PACK.
1678. COTTON, Scarronides, or Virgil Travestie [Works (1725), 129].
| And through the Fire A-PICK A-PACK, | |
| Bore the old Sinner on his Back. |
d. 1704. SIR R. L’ESTRANGE [Century]. In a hurry she whips up her darling under her arms, and carries the other a PICKAPACK upon her shoulders.
