How To Use pack animal In A Sentence
- Although roads connect many major commercial centers, in much of the country goods are transported by porters and pack animals.
- Etymology: French, from Middle French soumelier official charged with transportation of supplies, from Old French, pack animal driver, probably alteration of * sommerier, from somier pack animal, from Medieval Latin saugmarius, from Late Latin sagma packsaddle — more at sumpter Sommelier on the Half Shell
- The construction of a railroad inspired the establishment of freight and mercantile businesses, and farmers grew fields of hay for horses and other pack animals.
- Just ahead, in the wider section of the pass, the dried bones and carcasses of men and pack animals lay strewn about.
- Deran sighed and started tacking up two horses, leaving another one haltered for use as a pack animal.
- In turning out pack animals to graze, it is well either to keep the lariat ropes upon them with the ends trailing upon the ground, or to hopple them, as no corral can be made into which they may be driven in order to catch them. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
- Prior to the arrival of the railroad, all freighting was done by wagon or pack animal.
- Because beagles were bred as a pack animals, they are inclined to get along well with other dogs - and with cats, too.
- The findings throw fresh light on the camel's former popularity both as pack animal and military mount.
- The pack animals and remounts caught its fear, lunging against their leads and squealing in terror, and Bahzell leapt in among them to calm them.