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Packhorse

noun
1.
A workhorse used as a pack animal.






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"Packhorse" Quotes from Famous Books



... mounted. Mrs Bedford, Aunt Georgie, and the girls had come out to see them off, and the captain and Uncle Jack were standing by the fence to which the packhorse was hitched. ...
— The Dingo Boys - The Squatters of Wallaby Range • G. Manville Fenn

... trotting, cantering, and walking, without intermission; the whip ceased to touch him, the rein never checked him. He found he was the master, and he went his own way. He took his broken rider back into the county where he had been foaled. But a few miles from his native place they came to the "Packhorse," a pretty little roadside inn, with farm-yard and buildings at the back. He had often baited here in his infancy; and now, stiff and stumbling with fatigue, the good horse could not pass the familiar place; ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various



Words linked to "Packhorse" :   pack animal, sumpter, workhorse



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