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packtrain

packtrain 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 packtrain

pluralpacktrains

Questions about packtrain

What is packtrain the alternative form of?
Packtrain is the alternative form of pack train.

Words near packtrain in the dictionary

  1. packstone
  2. packstones
  3. packthread
  4. packthreads
  5. packtong
  6. packtrain
  7. packtrains
  8. packware
  9. packwax
  10. packway
  11. packways

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