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pack-train†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a line of animals employed in packing, together with the men in charge.
See: packing
Quotations
1862
From thence pack-trains could make Alexandria, or the mouth of the Canal River . . . in 14 or 15 days.
1965
He . . . operated a pack train for the Hudson's Bay Company.