Phrase guide

pack horse

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A horse used for carrying luggage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories" The pack horse was sick - with a big, open sore rubbed under the belly.

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History

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Across languages

Translations

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: товарен кон (tovaren kon) — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Finnish: kuormahevonen — horse used for carrying luggage
  • French: cheval de bât — horse used for carrying luggage
  • French: cheval de somme — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Galician: rocín de albarda — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Italian: cavallo da soma — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Latin: avertarius — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Latin: caballus — horse used for carrying luggage
  • : ᦙᦱᧉᦎᦱᧂᧈ (maa2ṫaang1) — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Māori: hōiho tarapēke — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pakkhest — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: pakkhest — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Romanian: cal de povară — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Russian: вью́чная ло́шадь (vʹjúčnaja lóšadʹ) — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Sundanese: kuda umbal — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Ottoman Turkish: بیگیر (beygir) — horse used for carrying luggage
  • Vietnamese: ngựa thồ — horse used for carrying luggage