pack train
See also: packtrain and pack-train
English
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Pack train near Mt Rainier, USA
(A. H. Barnes, c1910)
(A. H. Barnes, c1910)
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Noun
pack train (plural pack trains)
- (dated) A procession of beasts of burden, such as horses or mules, laden with freight.
- 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, ch. 41:
- Shortly after six, our pack train arrived. […] We had nineteen serving men and twenty-six pack mules! It was a perfect caravan.
- 1914, Zane Grey, Light of the Western Stars, ch. 9:
- Here they met a pack-train of burros that came down the mountain trail.
- 1944 June 12, "Medicine: War-Horse Hospital," Time (retrieved 24 May 2015):
- In Italy's rugged mountains, mules and horses can go where a jeep can not go. […] Each pack train has its own veterinarian to give first aid.
- 2003 March 8, Edward Rothstein, "The Photographer Who Found a Way to Slow Down Time," New York Times (retrieved 24 May 2015):
- Muybridge […] would travel through the Western landscape with as many as four assistants and a pack train to carry his glass negatives and chemical preparations and cameras.
- 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, ch. 41:
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