DCHP-2

train ((3)) 3 DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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". . . .