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Sumpter   /sˈəmptər/   Listen
noun
Sumpter  n.  
1.
The driver of a pack horse. (Obs.)
2.
A pack; a burden. (Obs.)
3.
An animal, especially a horse, that carries packs or burdens; a baggage horse.


adjective
Sumpter  adj.  Carrying pack or burdens on the back; as, a sumpter horse; a sumpter mule.





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"Sumpter" Quotes from Famous Books



... last, that the Cistercians were even said to desecrate churchyards, and to encroach on the borders of royal forests. They grew famous for the breeding of horses according to the exacting taste of the day, learned in the various species of palfreys and sumpter horses and knight's chargers and horses for ambling or for trotting. They thanked Heaven for the "blessings of fatness and fleeces," as foreign weavers sought their wool and the gold of Flanders was poured into their treasure-houses. The same enterprise and energy which in modern days made ...
— Henry the Second • Mrs. J. R. Green
... city all February, and March, and April, May and June, five months did he fight, and could not prevail against it. And when July came the food of the besiegers failed them, insomuch that they had only the dole for a few days left; then the baggage was made ready, and the sumpter-beasts and serving-men were ordered to depart for Leon, and proclamation was made in the camp that the army should remain yet four days, and on the fifth they might break up and depart every one to his own house. But then the Monks of Lorvam and ...
— Chronicle Of The Cid • Various
... wharves," said Silas. "They steer by the spire of St. Philips, the line between there and Fort Sumpter is all deep water. How'd you like ...
— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole
... furlongs from the temple of Zeus in Olympia, and within the sacred enclosure there is meadow-land and wood-covered hills, suited to the breeding of pigs and goats and cattle and horses, so that even the sumpter animals of the pilgrims passing to the feast fare sumptuously. The shrine is girdled by a grove of cultivated trees, yielding dessert fruits in their season. The temple itself is a facsimile on a small scale of the great temple at Ephesus, and the image of the ...
— Anabasis • Xenophon
... of Fort Sumpter and the issuing of the proclamation of April 15, 1861, Governor Magoffin responded to President Lincoln's call for troops from Kentucky ...
— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke


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