"packhorse" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From pack + horse.",
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      "form": "packhorses",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "packhorse bridge"
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          "ref": "1997, Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, page 232:",
          "text": "Finally they put him on one of De Soto's packhorses, but even on a packhorse his feet hung down to within a few inches of the ground.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Victor Grant Smith, edited by Jeanette Prodgers, The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith, Revised edition, page 70:",
          "text": "Procter had a handsome half-breed girl with him and two splendid elk heads and meat on his packhorses that he was taking to Fort Lincoln for sale.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Bill G. Yung, The Half Fast Hunter, page 41:",
          "text": "While I was destroying my parka, the packhorse that Bob had been leading laid down. So now all our supplies were supine along with the napping packhorse. Looking upon a reclining packhorse while facing a wind-driven rain, wearing a tattered rain parka, with lightning flashing every fifteen seconds followed by thunder so loud my clothes shuddered was not how I had expected the afternoon to unfold. Each time we got the packhorse to his feet he would promptly lie down again.",
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        "A horse used as a pack animal."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "carthorse"
        },
        {
          "word": "packsaddle"
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        {
          "sense": "horse used to carry heavy items",
          "word": "rowney"
        },
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          "sense": "horse used to carry heavy items",
          "word": "sumpter"
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    },
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      "form": "pack horse",
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          "text": "While I was destroying my parka, the packhorse that Bob had been leading laid down. So now all our supplies were supine along with the napping packhorse. Looking upon a reclining packhorse while facing a wind-driven rain, wearing a tattered rain parka, with lightning flashing every fifteen seconds followed by thunder so loud my clothes shuddered was not how I had expected the afternoon to unfold. Each time we got the packhorse to his feet he would promptly lie down again.",
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