DCHP-3

pack in

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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carry in one ' s supplies, especially on the back; deliver goods by packing.

See: pack ((v.))(def. 2),packing

Quotations

1923
While still unable to spare men to bring up his thirty-foot shallow-draught paddle-wheeler, which had arrived at the rail-head in sections, he had been compelled to "pack" in effeminate double-walled silk tents. . . .
1943
Or would it (the river) be all choked with wind-thrown trees, so that he would have to abandon the canoe and pack in?
1957
Provisions were packed in by pack train in the summer.