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1an. — Hist.
a number of dog-teams and sleds forming a brigade that moves in single file.
See: dog-train(def. 4)
Quotations
1900
An hour later, the train had taken on the likeness of a black pencil crawling in a long, straight line across a mighty sheet of foolscap.
1913
In ten minutes, a goodly supply of frozen rabbits had been packed on the north-bound train. . . .
1bn. — Hist.
a number of wagons drawn by teams of oxen, employed in hauling freight.
Quotations
1945
Six teams to the train, twelve yoke to the team, with the three wagons swinging and creaking along behind, and the sixteen-foot bull whips popping like pistol shots.
1962
The whole train, consisting of five or six "strings" of twenty bulls yoked to three "prairie-schooners" . . . [is] superintended by a "wagon-boss."