backpacker

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one who carries a pack on his back, especially as a freighter (def. 1).

See: freighter(def. 1)

Quotations

1950

Billy Ballou . . . established a fairly regular express service from Victoria to the lower Fraser mines by steamboat, canoe, mule and backpacker.