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Recent Examples of packhorse
Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off)
Parent or packhorse?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Monte Reel,
Bloomberg.com,
27 Oct. 2017
Unlike many New Deal projects, the packhorse plan required help from locals.
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Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian,
22 June 2017
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
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The two old warhorses spent six years together at Madrid and won four Champions League titles.
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Strange but true; there could be a little more life in this old warhorse yet.
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Her hair was pulled into a sleek high pony that cascaded down her back.
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On July 3, families can attend the Cub Foods Family Fun Night, complete with inflatables, pony rides, magic and much more.
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Purchasing a racehorse often required hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, along with ongoing training, veterinary, and management expenses.
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Eighteen racehorses were inside the barn when the fire broke out.
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In the East Village, the stylish Hunan Slurp is known for spicy stir fries and less common proteins, including frog, pig trotter, and century egg.
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The race welcomed para-athletes, and trotters with strollers were also invited to take part.
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For return to flight, Blue Origin will not rebuilding the transporter-erector, but will instead use a crane to lift the rocket vertical on its launch mount.
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The engine mounts were closely inspected following the November crash, and going forward the spherical bearings will be replaced regularly, after every 4,000 cycles of takeoffs and landings.
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Anrabess 2-piece Linen Jumpsuit Everyone knows that a two-piece set is the truest workhorse in any travel wardrobe.
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Shop the anti-aging workhorse on Amazon.
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Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
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Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
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On the car ride to the casino, Sarris is riffing on his friendship with Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart, who bought Sarris a quarter horse as a gift.
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Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress has canceled its Saturday night card for quarter horses and thoroughbreds amid evacuations in the area of a malfunctioning chemical storage tank in nearby Garden Grove, track officials announced.
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“Packhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/packhorse. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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