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
  • Ride Giannis Into the Paint—and the Pacers Into the Ground With no Lillard for now, the Bucks’ offensive warhorse is back to full-time duty.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The National Symphony Orchestra is planning warhorses by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich and world premieres by Carlos Simon, the Kennedy Center’s composer in residence; Valerie Coleman; and others.
    Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The town is located near both Mount Rogers and the Grayson Highlands State Park, known for its miniature ponies that roam the grounds.
    Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Also discovered was a cauldron and a bowl that might have been used to mix wine, as well as ceremonial spears, bridle bits and elaborate horse harnesses for at least 14 ponies.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • There's an entire section that dictates how to depreciate a racehorse over three years (true story), but try finding a simple explanation of whether your crypto losses offset your W-2 income.
    Darren T. Case, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • This felt like a Miami Heat season looking for a way to end, to be over, to be put out of its misery like a crippled racehorse humanely put down.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth.
    Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • More than 1 million trotters will participate in those races.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There’s also a wireless phone charger in front of the gearstick that doubles as a phone mount to use for navigation.
    Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The engine mounts are lighter, the walls of the components thinner, and titanium and Inconcel parts are used, all a bid to shave pounds and ounces.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The actress has been a showbiz workhorse for decades now.
    EW.com, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • If your small office or busy home office needs a workhorse, $40 off is an enticing reason to pick up this quality all-in-one printer.
    John Mihaly, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 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
  • Rosas competes in rodeos and enjoys trail rides with her 5-year-old quarter horse, Timone.
    Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The five who were euthanized Wednesday also were quarter horses.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024

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“Packhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/packhorse. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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