(a) package on

(a) package on
   drunkenness
   Carrying a load1 and owing nothing to the obsolete English pack, rum, named after the English general Pakenham who had the misfortune of being killed in the battle of New Orleans two months after the signing in Europe of the peace treaty between the combatants.

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