What is "packhorse"

Usage examples of "packhorse".

We galloped in single file along the narrow track, the blackboy in advance with the packhorse struggling after him, and the pint pots strapped to his saddle rattling against each other.

A buckskin horse was tethered nearby, and not far away, a grulla packhorse.

Jack and I rigged up a strip of waterproof stuff we had to cover the swags on the packhorse, but the rain drove in, almost horizontally, and we got wet through, blankets, clothes and all.

Apparently the few light breezes that had sprung up had been sufficient to fill the barrel to the brim so that the packhorse was able to just reach some moisture with his lips and suck it down.

WHINNYING OF ONE of the packhorses woke Abe with a start, and he fumbled in near panic for the butt of his stainless-steel Colt Python.

They allowed the team to draw the hearse on at a steady pace, with the packhorses tied behind.

The packhorses, loaded and on their lead line, stamped impatiently, but everyone stood by his mount and waited.

Perrin held the lead line to one of the packhorses they had brought south.

Adding to the danger of a flat-out gallop of over three thousand horsemen were the packhorses and relief horses, most of which were running out of control.

More packhorses more heavily laden, more local armed men accompanying them.

Singing Pastures mounted, their packhorses weighed down with their possessions and what was left of their herds standing, heads hanging, beneath a cloud of dust.

They rode up into the mountains trailing three horses apiece in their string with packhorses to haul the grub and cooktent and they hunted the wild horses in the upland forests in the pine and madroño and in the arroyos where they'd gone to hide and they drove them pounding over the high mesas and penned them in the stone ravine fitted ten years earlier with fence and gate and there the horses milled and squealed and clambered at the rock slopes and turned upon one another biting and kicking while John Grady walked among them in the sweat and dust and bedlam with his rope as if they were no more than some evil dream of horse.

So when after each hunt the packhorses brought the tusks into the camp there was no trace of censure in Duffs fare or voice.

One group turned off on the near side, another rode past and turned off at the farther corner, each group with a packhorse carrying a ladder for laying against the fence, a ladder broad and strong enough for three men to cross abreast.

Belgarath glanced back at their laden packhorses plodding along beside the mules.