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pack train

pack train noun: a procession of beasts of burden, such as horses or mules, laden with freight.

pack train: a procession of beasts of burden, such as horses or mules, laden with freight
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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
    • 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

pack train meaning in Tamil

pack train in Tamil

பொதி ஒழுகை

Examples of pack train in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:

Forms of pack train

pluralpack trains
alternative formpack-train
alternative formpacktrain

Questions about pack train

What does pack train mean?
Pack train means a procession of beasts of burden, such as horses or mules, laden with freight.
What is pack train in Tamil?
Pack train in Tamil is பொதி ஒழுகை. See Pack train meaning in Tamil.
How do you use pack train in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is pack train?
Pack train is a noun.
What is the plural of pack train?
The plural of pack train is pack trains.

Words near pack train in the dictionary

  1. pack saddle
  2. pack saddles
  3. pack shit
  4. pack shot
  5. pack shots
  6. pack train
  7. pack trains
  8. pack up
  9. pack year
  10. pack years
  11. pack-away

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pack train (page history and authors); pack train (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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