packhorse

[ pak-hawrs ]

noun
  1. a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.

  2. a person who works hard or bears a heavy load of responsibility.

Origin of packhorse

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How to use packhorse in a sentence

  • Then we mounted and took to the trail again, stripped down to fighting-trim, unhampered by a pack-horse.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • It was pictographic and showed a man leading a pack-horse along a white road to a wigwam.

    A Virginia Scout | Hugh Pendexter
  • Does the Pack-Horse-Man ask his red brothers to be kind only to have his words fall on dead ears?

    A Virginia Scout | Hugh Pendexter
  • The blazed trail gave way to the corduroy road, and the pack horse to the oxcart or the stage.

    The Canadian Dominion | Oscar D. Skelton
  • Soon their pack horses became so jaded that Washington used his saddle horse for a pack horse and walked.

    The Boy Scouts of Bob's Hill | Charles Pierce Burton

British Dictionary definitions for packhorse

packhorse

/ (ˈpækˌhɔːs) /


noun
  1. a horse used to transport goods, equipment, etc

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