Results for packhorse

Definitions of packhorse:

A horse formerly used to carry goods in panniers.

Usage examples for packhorse:

• At a later date this packhorse system became that of common carriers. "Stage-coach and Tavern Days", Alice Morse Earle

• These were but bridle or packhorse paths, tracked out irregularly among the trees, and meandering through the gorse wherever it grew thinnest. "The White Gauntlet", Mayne Reid

• So they forced the reluctant Jimmy to mount the packhorse and distributed his load between them, taking only what was absolutely necessary. "The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas", Mary Gaunt

• The fact is, my old friend Abe Walters, that kept the Packhorse Inn is lying dead, and they bury 'en at half after two to- day. "The Delectable Duchy", Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch