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bathorse

bathorse noun: a horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.

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 bathorse

pluralbathorses
alternative formbat-horse
alternative formbat horse

Origin of bathorse

From French bat (“packsaddle”) (compare cheval de bat (“packhorse”)) + English horse. See bastard and batman.

Questions about bathorse

What does bathorse mean?
Bathorse means a horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.
What part of speech is bathorse?
Bathorse is a noun.
What is the plural of bathorse?
The plural of bathorse is bathorses.

Words near bathorse in the dictionary

  1. bathophenanthroline
  2. bathophenantroline
  3. bathophilous
  4. bathophobia
  5. bathorhodopsin
  6. bathorse
  7. bathorses
  8. bathos
  9. bathoses
  10. Bathou
  11. Bathouism

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