1894 Brewer’s / E / Empannel
To put the pack-saddle on a beast of burden.
“Saddle Rozinante, and empannel thine ass.”—Don Quixote, ii. 326.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.