Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A road or trail suitable for pack-animals, but not for vehicles.
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Examples
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I looked longingly up the valley, but my way turned off to the right, following the pack-road to the ferry at Fulin.
A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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And now woe to the unwary or to the newcomer who thinks our heather-covered moors are all plain sailing! for along them run long lines of ruts, the remains of the old pack-road of the Middle Ages, worn by the traffic of centuries and now covered deep in purple heath.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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The road they were following scarcely deserved the name; being a pack-road, or mere bridle-path; and so sleep was the ascent, that it was necessary to zigzag nearly a dozen times, before the summit of the ridge could be attained.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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