Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A narrow single-file trail for pack-animals.
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Examples
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An old wood-road, or a regular wagon-road, or a logging-trail, or a pack-trail is used as a fire line, when possible; but when a fire line must be cleared especially, it is laid from bare spot to bare spot and along the tops of ridges.
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Slowly he continued along the road until he came to where a narrow pack-trail swung north and east through the thick spruce and balsam in the direction of Loon Lake.
The Hunted Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Isolated by one hundred and fifty miles of wagon-road and pack-trail from one railroad base, and by forty miles of mountains from the other, its future turned upon the hope of cheaper transportation.
Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893
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With a single exception its ores were low grade, and the wagon-road and pack-trail freightage made them practically profitless to the miners.
Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893
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