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bat-horse

bat-horse is the alternative form of bathorse.

Meaning of bathorse

Noun

bathorse (plural bathorses)

  1. (obsolete) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign
    • About ten o’clock the wagons and bat horses laden with Indian corn were returning, covered by a party of infantry, with Tarleton and his dragoons as a rear-guard.1857 Washington Irving, Life Of George Washington Vol IV

Forms of bat-horse

pluralbat-horses

Questions about bat-horse

What is bat-horse the alternative form of?
Bat-horse is the alternative form of bathorse.

Words near bat-horse in the dictionary

  1. bat-eared foxes
  2. Bat-embargo
  3. bat-fowler
  4. bat-fowlers
  5. bat-fowling
  6. bat-horse
  7. bat-horses
  8. bat-house
  9. bat-houses
  10. bat-mitzvah
  11. bat-mitzvahs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bat-horse (page history and authors); bathorse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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