packtrain

American  

[pak-trayn] / ˈpækˌtreɪn /

noun

1. a line or succession of pack animals, as mules or burros, used to transport food and supplies over terrain unsuitable for wagons or other vehicles.

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Etymology

Origin of packtrain

First recorded in 1840–50; pack ¹ + train

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Example Sentences

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packtrain

Just as I got back to the camp I heard that a packtrain was coming from over the hills.

From The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon

At one place we were obliged to take the whole packtrain up a cliff fifteen hundred feet high, making a trail as we went.

From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

When I got back to the packtrain, I directed them back to where the old trenches are to-day, and where you may still see a pile of bones.

From The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon

Merchants dreamed of many fortunate ventures, in connection with the river trade or the overland commerce by packtrain.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt

I went back to the packtrain and helped fight a while and then I took to the pine hills away over to the east.

From The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon

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