pack train

See also: packtrain and pack-train

English

Pack train near Mt Rainier, USA
(A. H. Barnes, c1910)

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Noun

pack train (plural pack trains)

  1. (dated) A procession of beasts of burden, such as horses or mules, laden with freight.
    • 1869, Mark Twain, chapter 41, in The Innocents Abroad:
      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, chapter 9, in Light of the Western Stars:
      Here they met a pack-train of burros that came down the mountain trail.
    • 1944 June 12, “Medicine: War-Horse Hospital”, in Time‎[1], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 March 2023:
      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”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 November 2019:
      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.

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