Carthorse vs Packhorse - What's the difference?
carthorse | packhorse |
A large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads.
*1840 , (ed.),
*:The blacksmith's forge shone bright on the opposite side of the way, and the proprietor had the hind-leg of a carthorse in his leather-coated lap.
*1852 , (Charles Dickens), ''(Household Words)
*:He is not a man of independent fortune, for he works like a carthorse .
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses , without taking the least notice of them.
A horse used as a pack animal.
* 1997 , Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms ,
* 2009 , Victor Grant Smith, Jeanette Prodgers (editor), The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith , Revised Edition,
* 2010 , Bill G. Yung, The Half Fast Hunter ,
As nouns the difference between carthorse and packhorse
is that carthorse is a large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads while packhorse is a horse used as a pack animal.carthorse
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Alternative forms
* cart horse * cart-horseNoun
(en noun)Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, of the Late (w)
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* English words with consonant pseudo-digraphspackhorse
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(wikipedia packhorse)Alternative forms
* pack horse * pack-horseNoun
(en noun)page 232,
- 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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- 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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- 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.
