string-team

B.C., Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a pack-train of mules or horses, capable of making better time than oxen.

Quotations

1912

. . . I tote the cargoes over there by sleigh. There my contract ends, because Tearful George takes on with his string team down to the railroad.

1930

String-teams . . . carried less freight, never more than fifteen tons.