dog-pack

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a bag, usually one of a pair, carried by a pack dog.

Quotations

1924

The best dog packs are made of caribou skin, the outsides being the shanks sewn together. The Eskimaux . . . make them of sealskin.

1954

Gordon was busy down at the cabin doing some baking and mending one of the dog-packs that had got torn.