packhorses

noun

plural of packhorse
as in warhorses

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  1. warhorses
  2. mounts
  3. chargers
  4. mares
  5. hacks
  6. chestnuts
  7. bays
Noun
  • The two old warhorses spent six years together at Madrid and won four Champions League titles.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • Perhaps most notably, the annual opera program will divert from the Pacific Symphony’s traditional Verdi and Puccini Italian operatic warhorses.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
Definition of warhorses
Noun
  • This small yet intriguing photo gallery mounts changing exhibits by Icelandic photographers from the 19th century to the current day.
    — Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Scramble mounts as a network drive via WebDAV, so your files appear right in your file explorer instead of in a separate app.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 20 July 2026
Definition of mounts
Noun
  • Anker, arguably the king of phone chargers, created a compact, wireless, magnetic backup charger for your iPhone.
    — Carlos Mejia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • These new chargers from Ugreen are aimed at MacBook Air and Neo owners who want a power charger with a little more power.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Definition of chargers
Noun
  • Insulin can come from pig pancreases, estrogen from the urine of pregnant mares.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • But those first few crops of kids exceeded expectations in their 2-year-old seasons, and so owners started bringing him higher-class mares.
    — Graham Cornwell, New York Times, 19 June 2026
Definition of mares
Noun
  • Microsoft said the new tools respond to a seismic shift in how organizations secure their networks against catastrophic hacks.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026
  • Likewise, there are plenty of home hacks that cite vinegar as the magic ingredient.
    — Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 25 July 2026
Definition of hacks
Noun
  • There are also some surviving large American chestnuts, some of which have heritable blight resistance.
    — Steve Strauss, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
  • Mature trees donate an encyclopedia of species, including the regional pines and chestnuts planted on instruction of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in the 1700s.
    — Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of chestnuts
Noun
  • The site now features dedicated processing bays and automated digital X-ray inspection equipment that reduce inspection time and improve manufacturing throughput.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
  • On their soft opening night, Willey thought the kids had more fun at the bays playing games than the adults did.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026
Definition of bays
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