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train ((3)) 3 
1a n. Hist. a number of dog-teams and sleds forming a brigade that moves in single file.
See also: dog-train (def. 4)
- 1900 An hour later, the train had taken on the likeness of a black pencil crawling in a long, straight line across a mighty sheet of foolscap.
- 1913 In ten minutes, a goodly supply of frozen rabbits had been packed on the north-bound train. . . .
1b n. Hist. a number of wagons drawn by teams of oxen, employed in hauling freight.
- 1945 Six teams to the train, twelve yoke to the team, with the three wagons swinging and creaking along behind, and the sixteen-foot bull whips popping like pistol shots.
- 1962 The whole train, consisting of five or six "strings" of twenty bulls yoked to three "prairie-schooners" . . . [is] superintended by a "wagon-boss."
2 n. North a tractor-drawn train of sleds and cabooses (def. 5), the principal means of transporting freight, supplies, etc. in the Canadian North in winter.
See also: caboose (def. 5) cat-train
- 1958 Two tractor drivers manoeuvered their cats into position to pull the two "trains". . . .
- 1900 An hour later, the train had taken on the likeness of a black pencil crawling in a long, straight line across a mighty sheet of foolscap.