Obs. rare. [a. F. bardelle (= It. bardella): see BARD sb.2] A pack-saddle.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, I. xlviii. (1632), 158. There is nothing accounted more base … than to use saddles or bardels.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Bardelle … denotes a saddle made in form of a great saddle, but only of cloth stuffed with straw, and tied tight down with packthread, without either leather, wood or iron.
