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pack-horse

pack-horse is the alternative spelling of packhorse.

Meaning of packhorse

Noun

packhorse (plural packhorses)

  1. A horse used as a pack animal.
    • The two Indians were finished with their own saddling, the camp gear was packed, and already the extra saddle horses and their one packhorse were haltered so they could be led back to the ranch.1981, James Powell, chapter 8, in The Malpais Rider (A Double D Western), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 62

Forms of pack-horse

pluralpack-horses

Questions about pack-horse

What is pack-horse the alternative spelling of?
Pack-horse is the alternative spelling of packhorse.

Words near pack-horse in the dictionary

  1. pack trains
  2. pack up
  3. pack year
  4. pack years
  5. pack-away
  6. pack-horse
  7. pack-horses
  8. pack-in
  9. pack-ins
  10. pack-rat
  11. pack-rats

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