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pack train en · NOUN

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1. (dated) A procession of beasts of burden, such as horses or mules, laden with freight.
   • Shortly after six, our pack train arrived. […] We had nineteen serving men and twenty-six pack mules! It was a perfect caravan. 1869, Mark Twain, chapter 41, in The Innocents Abroad:
   • Here they met a pack-train of burros that came down the mountain trail. 1914, Zane Grey, chapter 9, in Light of the Western Stars:
   • Muybridge […] would travel through the Western landscape with as many as four assistants and a pack train to carry his glass negatives and chemical preparations and cameras. 2003 March 8, Edward Rothstein, “The Photographer Who Found a Way to Slow Down Time”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 May 2015:
   • In Italy's rugged mountains, mules and horses can go where a jeep can not go. […] Each pack train has its own veterinarian to give first aid. 1944 June 12, “Medicine: War-Horse Hospital”, in Time, retrieved 24 May 2015:

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pack animal