packtrain

American  

[pak-treyn] / ˈpækˌtreɪn /

noun

1. a line or succession of pack animals, as mules or burros, used to transport food and supplies over terrain unsuitable for wagons or other vehicles.

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Etymology

Origin of packtrain

First recorded in 1840–50; pack ¹ + train

Example Sentences

Farther on up the river was a packtrain, escorted by three hundred soldiers, and I made my way to the pack-train, and I found the Indians there fighting.

From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth

I went back to the packtrain and helped fight a while and then I took to the pine hills away over to the east.

From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth

At one place we were obliged to take the whole packtrain up a cliff fifteen hundred feet high, making a trail as we went.

From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel

The packtrain had already fortified itself by making entrenchments.

From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth

He followed the trail of the packtrain, wholly absorbed in thought.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.