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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 for the other side
  2. bat for the other team
  3. bat girl
  4. bat hawk
  5. bat hawks
  6. bat horse
  7. bat horses
  8. bat house
  9. bat houses
  10. bat in
  11. bat laurel

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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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