packhorse

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Recent Examples of packhorse Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse? Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024 In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away. Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021 The jeep came into being in 1940, born of a need for a new breed of mechanized packhorse that could carry men and messages to the front lines with speed and agility and not necessarily with the benefit of roads. Murray Rubenstein, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2020 Foot and packhorse traffic through the pass peaked around A.D. 1000, in the Viking Age, when mobility and trade were at a height in Europe, the researchers write. Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2020 The packhorse was Witt—the same kid who was spotted after his team’s state semifinal win in June picking up trash in the dugout. Joan Niesen, SI.com, 10 July 2019 Unlike many New Deal projects, the packhorse plan required help from locals. Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017 The Department of Justice countersued, producing evidence dating back more than a century showing that the public and the government consistently used the trail for packhorses and hike-ins. Monte Reel, Bloomberg.com, 27 Oct. 2017 Unlike many New Deal projects, the packhorse plan required help from locals. Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for packhorse
Noun
  • Considering its financial predicament and wealth of center backs, Barca could be tempted to sell the South American warhorse if a European rival tables his asking price.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • The Club World Cup is the old warhorse in his element, the ego still raging after all this time.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Examples include Roan’s retro Grammy Awards performance atop a giant pink pony and surrounded by clown cowboys, and arriving on stage at the 2024 Governors Ball by bursting out of a smoking bong apple and emerging in full body paint as the Statue of Liberty.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
  • The Dolphins came out in pony personnel (two running backs on the field) with running back Raheem Mostert in the backfield and De’Von Achane in the slot.
    Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The technology is good for injury recovery in both humans and animals, long been used in equine therapy for racehorses.
    Kristin Auble, Vogue, 10 July 2025
  • According to The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, every horse who ran the race is a descendant of famed racehorse Secretariat.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • His sweetbreads in pig trotter ragu evoke his memories of eating pork knuckle at his grandmother’s house.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth.
    Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Influencers and brand accounts can afford to adapt to the higher standards, investing in ring lights and phone mounts, while the rest of us wrestle with our iPhone camera apps.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 9 July 2025
  • Then, as taskmaster Saturn stations retrograde in your sign on July 13, the pressure mounts to take responsibility for your choices and deal with lingering consequences.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Over the past decade, English wine producers have deepened their understanding of Bacchus, a grape once seen primarily as a workhorse for crisp, grassy whites.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Provorov averaged over 23 minutes per game last season and was an all-situations workhorse.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
    Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
Noun
  • Lynch spends much of her spare time riding her four quarter horses.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2025
  • Jose and Irma Sifuentes went out to run a quick errand Monday only to come back to find Rey, their American quarter horse, missing from the family’s stable in unincorporated Kane County.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025

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“Packhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/packhorse. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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