Meaning of pack train | Babel Free

Definitions

A procession of beasts of burden, such as horses or mules, laden with freight.

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Examples

“Shortly after six, our pack train arrived. […] We had nineteen serving men and twenty-six pack mules! It was a perfect caravan.”

“Here they met a pack-train of burros that came down the mountain trail.”

“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.”

“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.”

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