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rowney
English
Etymology
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Noun
rowney
- A carthorse, load horse, or sumpter horse; a packhorse.
- 1909, Arthur Wade-Evans, Welsh Medieval Law
- Six score pence is the value of a rowney.
- 1909, Arthur Wade-Evans, Welsh Medieval Law
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packhorse
English
Alternative forms
- pack horse
- pack-horse
Etymology
pack +? horse
Noun
packhorse (plural packhorses)
- A horse used as a pack animal.
- 1997, Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, 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.
- 2009, Victor Grant Smith, Jeanette Prodgers (editor), The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith, Revised Edition, page 70,
- 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.
- 2010, Bill G. Yung, The Half Fast Hunter, page 41,
- 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.
- 1997, Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, page 232,
Synonyms
- (horse used to carry heavy items): rowney, sumpter, sumpter horse
Derived terms
- packhorse bridge
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See also
- carthorse
- packsaddle
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