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pack verb To lug, carry (usually a heavy object or load, such as wild game) on one’s back, shoulders, or hip; to convey on the back of a horse, mule, or other animal. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly West, Mississippi Valley, southern Appalachians”]

1863 Wilson Confederate Private 2 (Feb 3) we have to pack wood about a mile. 1895 Edson and Fairchild TN Mts 373 I have to pack the corn to mill. 1933 Carpenter Sthn Mt Dialect 23 Pack for CARRY is used in southwestern Virginia, southern West Virginia and in Kentucky, but it is not often heard in northern West Virginia or the adjoining part of Virginia. 1977 Shackelford et al Our Appalachia 124 I picked it up and drug it to the house; it was just simply too big to pack. 1989 Matewan OHP-28 I helped pack the lumber off. They call it off-bearing.