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pack-train

pack-train is the alternative form of pack train.

Meaning of pack train

Noun

pack train (plural pack trains)

  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

Forms of pack-train

pluralpack-trains

Questions about pack-train

What is pack-train the alternative form of?
Pack-train is the alternative form of pack train.

Words near pack-train in the dictionary

  1. pack-rats
  2. pack-saddle
  3. pack-saddles
  4. pack-shepherd
  5. pack-shepherds
  6. pack-train
  7. pack-trains
  8. pack-up
  9. pack-up kit
  10. pack-up kits
  11. pack-ups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pack-train (page history and authors); pack train (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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