packhorse

noun

Definition of packhorsenext
as in warhorse

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Recent Examples of packhorse Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse? — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024 In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away. — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021 The jeep came into being in 1940, born of a need for a new breed of mechanized packhorse that could carry men and messages to the front lines with speed and agility and not necessarily with the benefit of roads. — Murray Rubenstein, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for packhorse
  1. warhorse
  2. pony
  3. racehorse
  4. trotter
  5. mount
  6. workhorse
  7. hackney
  8. quarter horse
Noun
  • Going to celebrate the Passover, Jesus chose to enter the city on the back of a colt, in stark contrast to the warhorses and chariots of Roman armies.
    — Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.
    — Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of warhorse
Noun
  • Material play was also in focus, with pony hair leather fashioned in a Bambi print.
    — Lily Templeton, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The park’s wild ponies were originally brought here in the 1970s to control forest growth.
    — Casey Barber, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of pony
Noun
  • The prize is named after the King's beloved grandmother Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who avidly followed horse racing and memorably passed the hobby along to her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, who bred, owned and oversaw many racehorses during her lifetime.
    — Janine Henni, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Fun fact: The Vanderbilt family once owned Sagamore Farm, and Plank commissioned a mural of the family's racehorse, Native Dancer, in the home.
    — Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of racehorse
Noun
  • Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth.
    — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • More than 1 million trotters will participate in those races.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of trotter
Noun
  • As public pressure mounts, Khalil’s fate remains uncertain.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The club’s hierarchy will now hope the Champions League can provide the fans with some silverware this season as pressure mounts on Arteta’s shoulders.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of mount
Noun
  • Cole, who turned 34 years old ahead of this season, has been a workhorse his entire career, averaging 210 innings pitched per season.
    — Tyler Small, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Marquez, a workhorse for six seasons and an All-Star in 2021, suffered an elbow injury four starts into 2023 and underwent Tommy John surgery.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025
Definition of workhorse
Noun
  • Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
    — Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
Definition of hackney
Noun
  • The five who were euthanized Wednesday also were quarter horses.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Over the next 30 years, the steamboat captain, born the son of Irish immigrants in New York, built a ranching empire still known today for its beef cattle and quarter horses.
    — Pam LeBlanc, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025
Definition of quarter horse

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“Packhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/packhorse. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.

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