packtrain
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of packtrain
Example Sentences
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His schedule was temporarily upset by the fact that we had already engaged the best packtrain and guides available.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
The packtrain had already fortified itself by making entrenchments.
From The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon
Farther on up the river was a packtrain, escorted by three hundred soldiers, and I made my way to the pack-train, and I found the Indians there fighting.
From The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon
If it had not been for General Terry coming up as he did we would have had that packtrain, for they were all dry—they had had no water for two days.
From The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon
A packtrain goes two and a half miles an hour, or perhaps one and a half on the mountain trails.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
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