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pack animal






pack animal   
noun

Definition of pack animal

: an animal used for carrying packs



Recent Examples on the Web


//Image Lurie and his pack animal fall in with members of the United States Camel Corps, and many adventures are had.
— Dwight Garner, New York Times, "Téa Obreht Follows Up an Acclaimed Debut With a Visit to the Old West," 9 Aug. 2019
//This portion of the novel draws from an obscure chapter in history, involving the United States Camel Corps, a project of the U.S. Army that deployed camels as pack animals to support military operations in the arid Southwest.
— Francisco Cantú, The New Yorker, "Téa Obreht Reimagines the Western," 12 Aug. 2019
//While pack animals are available for a fee, the only way down is via a helicopter (long waits often are necessary) or your own two feet.
— Scott Craven, azcentral, "Beyoncé was at Havasupai Falls at the Grand Canyon, and people are angry about it," 11 July 2019
//Mules and horses The use of pack animals to carry hikers' gear in and out of the canyon is controversial, to say the least.
— Scott Craven, azcentral, "Hiking to Havasupai: How far is it, what's Mooney Falls like and everything you need to know," 24 June 2019
//Texas coyotes are not the pack animals most imagine them to be, Henke said.
— Shannon Tompkins, ExpressNews.com, "Meet the coyote, one of nature’s great tricksters," 13 June 2019
//In the past, of course, armies used the low-tech solution of pack animals to move their gear.
— David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, "The Overloaded Soldier: Why U.S. Infantry Now Carry More Weight Than Ever," 26 Dec. 2018
//Their wrangler made the heavily laden pack animals run up the Canyon, then tied them to a railing with no water in the trough.
— Russ Wiles, azcentral, "Incident with horse at Havasupai casts shadow on Arizona tourism," 10 May 2018
//The service drops off and picks up mail at Hualapai Hilltop at a higher elevation, from where pack animals descend roughly eight miles to the village of Supai.
— Russ Wiles, azcentral, "Incident with horse at Havasupai casts shadow on Arizona tourism," 10 May 2018


First Known Use of pack animal

1836, in the meaning defined above



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