Wiktionary
n. A board worn on the back like a backpack for carrying goods while travelling.
Usage examples of "packboard".
She also filled up the panniers, and put the last of it on a packboard to carry herself.
Then he hoisted his heavy packboard to his back, drew his haversack over his left shoulder, picked up his spear, and started out.
As he adjusted his packboard to fit comfortably across his back, and pulled his haversack over his shoulder, he suddenly understood.
The rig was mounted on a packboard with shoulder straps, and consisted of two tanks--one large, painted green, and the other somewhat smaller and painted russet.
The officer stood to one side near a packboard that held a large, square object that Murdock decided was a battery.
Nearly everything that could be taken away from the hunting site had been lashed to packboards, or wrapped in skins ready to be swung hammocklike from stout poles carried across the shoulders of two people.
They helped ease the heavy packboards off the backs of the people who had not only hunted but carried the products of their efforts back.
Lummomu-Ko and Wikit-Aa were near the gangplank, assisting the five Oathed Companions to don packboards that bore sacks containing spare weapons, clothing, a few necessities, and food.
It was well prepared in advance, with soldiers carrying heavy loads on packboards hiking up the trails from the seacoast and from the short distance up the river that could be navigated by flat-bottomed boats.
Nearly everything that could be taken away from the hunting site had been lashed to packboards, or wrapped in skins ready to be swung hammocklike from stout poles carried across the shoulders of two people.