Thesaurus results for PACKHORSE

packhorse

noun

as in warhorse

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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 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

This is a warhorse expected to pull a buggy around a cottage.

— Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Osgood Perkins’ Keeper wants to add a few wrinkles to this old warhorse’s mix.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025