packet party

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a party carrying mail and other special deliveries between trading posts by dog-sled, canoe, etc.

See: packet(def. 2)

Quotations

1923

The packet party is usually made up of two trains of eight to ten dogs each, the clerk in charge and two native voyageurs.