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pack animal

NOUN
  1. an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads

How To Use pack animal In A Sentence

  • Goods are often transported by pack animals or carried by porters over mountain trails.
  • Once they tried to drive a herd of several hundred ponies through the line to disrupt and stampede the pack animals, but the attempt failed.
  • The cost for a week of trekking in the park for two hikers - plus a scout, a guide, a muleteer, and two pack animals (all mandatory) - was roughly $200.
  • Young men with axes and pack animals travel for hours to cut standing trees, but they also prefer deadwood because it is easier to transport and does not need time to dry.
  • All pack animals have a lead animal, in the case of dogs it is the alpha dog.
  • Dingoes were originally pack animals and Australia's largest carnivores, and are believed to have caused the extinction of the thylacine and Tasmanian devil on the mainland.
  • The birds we had seen hitherto consisted chiefly of prairie chicken, lark, snipe, and a small kind of starling that was continuously swarming around us, and was so tame that it would at times sit on our pack animals while on the march. A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839
  • 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
  • When on campaign the Roman legions used pack animals to transport the ten-man tents used by the legionnaires and spare missiles for the archers, slingers, and catapults.
  • I can't over emphasize how important that is to a pack animal.
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