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Pack train

Pack \Pack\, n. [Akin to D. pak, G. pack, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakki, Gael. & Ir. pac, Arm. pak. Cf. Packet.]

  1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
    --Piers Plowman.

  2. [Cf. Peck, n.] A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. ``A pack of sorrows.'' ``A pack of blessings.''
    --Shak.

    Note: ``In England, by a pack of meal is meant 280 lbs.; of wool, 240 lbs.''
    --McElrath.

  3. A group or quantity of connected or similar things; as, a pack of lies; specifically:

    1. A full set of playing cards; a deck; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.

    2. A number of wolves, hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together; as, a wolf pack.

    3. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.

    4. A shook of cask staves.

    5. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

  4. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
    --Kane.

  5. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

  6. [Prob. the same word; but cf. AS. p[=ae]can to deceive.] A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage. [Obs.]
    --Skelton.

  7. (Med.) In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or sheets called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used, put about a patient to give him treatment; also, the fact or condition of being so treated.

  8. (Rugby Football) The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage.

    Pack animal, an animal, as a horse, mule, etc., employed in carrying packs.

    Pack and prime road or Pack and prime way, a pack road or bridle way.

    Pack cloth, a coarse cloth, often duck, used in covering packs or bales.

    Pack horse. See Pack animal (above).

    Pack ice. See def. 4, above.

    Pack moth (Zo["o]l.), a small moth ( Anacampsis sarcitella) which, in the larval state, is very destructive to wool and woolen fabrics.

    Pack needle, a needle for sewing with pack thread.
    --Piers Plowman.

    Pack saddle, a saddle made for supporting the load on a pack animal.
    --Shak.

    Pack staff, a staff for supporting a pack; a peddler's staff.

    Pack train (Mil.), a troop of pack animals.

Wikipedia
Pack Train

Pack Train is a 1953 American western film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Gene Autry and Gail Davis.

Usage examples of "pack train".

We led a considerable pack train from which I understood that Windlow’.

They won't know there aren't some of us still with the pack train.

They had decided to hire a guide and a pack train within a day or two and head out in the direction Hessar had chosen for his season's labors, for the captain was certain, and both Frost and In-quit appeared willing to back him, that the location of the stream in which the plaque had been found would be the point from which they would start their search.

Mounted, with no pack train, they made the northern crossroad in two days.

In a morning's misty rain, the highwaymen must have mistaken the party with its long pack train for merchants, rather than armed, alert and bellicose gentlemen and their retainers.

With no pack train to slow them down, they made good time, and rode into Harway just at dark, where the Lyonyan Guard waited in formation to greet him.