Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A horse used as a pack animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A horse used as a pack-animal in carrying burdens; hence, figuratively, a drudge.
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- noun A
horse used as apack animal
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- noun a workhorse used as a pack animal
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Examples
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"packhorse" were the only means of conveying information.
MoneyWeek RSS - All 2010
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We try to limit 180 pounds to each packhorse not including the packsaddle and pads.
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We try to limit 180 pounds to each packhorse not including the packsaddle and pads.
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After the Great War, he made his way north and turned up in Wyoming with three saddle horses and one packhorse.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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After the Great War, he made his way north and turned up in Wyoming with three saddle horses and one packhorse.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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The Sun reports the surprising news that reliable waddling packhorse Dirk Kuyt doesn't really want to play for Liverpool any more and would like to be reunited with his goateed personal organ grinder Rafa Benítez at Internazionale.
Football transfer rumours: Charles N'Zogbia to Birmingham? 2010
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I stumbled over a motorcycle that was leaking gasoline, and bumped into a shopping cart piled with junk, the ever-present shopping cart that had become the modern packhorse of the poor.
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By the time he was four he would have been riding an old packhorse.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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After the Great War, he made his way north and turned up in Wyoming with three saddle horses and one packhorse.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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The packhorse clopped behind; even its head was bowed.
DRAGON GAMES P.W. CATANESE 2010
chained_bear commented on the word packhorse
As the maid of honor at a friend's weeklong destination wedding, I was affectionately termed the bride's packhorse. They stopped saying it when, one day, I sighed, "Always a packhorse, never a pack..."
November 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word packhorse
Ha!
November 8, 2007