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packhorse

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted acehkoprsStarts with PEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a workhorse used as a pack animal

Word origin

From pack + horse, possibly (from an uncertain date) via Middle English palhors (read pakhorse).

Used in a sentence

  • The two Indians were finished with their own saddling, the camp gear was packed, and already the extra saddle horses and their one packhorse were haltered so they could be led back to the ranch.
  • Finally they put him on one of De Soto's packhorses, but even on a packhorse his feet hung down to within a few inches of the ground.
  • Procter had a handsome half-breed girl with him and two splendid elk heads and meat on his packhorses that he was taking to Fort Lincoln for sale.

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