packware

English

Etymology

From pack +‎ -ware.

Noun

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.