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bawhorse

bawhorse is the obsolete 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 bawhorse

pluralbawhorses

Questions about bawhorse

What is bawhorse the obsolete form of?
Bawhorse is the obsolete form of bathorse.

Words near bawhorse in the dictionary

  1. bawdy-house bottle
  2. bawdy-house bottles
  3. bawdy-houses
  4. bawdyhouse
  5. bawdyhouses
  6. bawhorse
  7. bawhorses
  8. Bawi
  9. bawk
  10. Bawku
  11. bawl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bawhorse (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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