How To Use packhorse In A Sentence
- Ships had to discharge their cargoes at congested anchorages either into horse drawn lighters or onto packhorses for the journey to the industrial centre.
- Mullan reported that they had several hundred horses with them, many of which were packhorses and ‘most of them were loaded with heavy bales of dried meat and furs.’
- I started tightening saddles and untying the biggest camp items from the packhorse.
- The knights all sat impatiently on their mounts, while several grooms loaded some packhorses with a month's worth of supplies, food, blankets, and clothing.
- Everyday features of the countryside from sheepfolds to packhorse bridges carry all kinds of fascinating clues about how man's activities have shaped the Lake District landscape.
- The smallest barge had a capacity vastly greater than the sturdiest packhorse.
- Before the Kingston / Queenstown road was built goods were taken by steamer or by packhorse from the railhead at Kingston, and this track follows part of the old pack track.
- In her ground-breaking work on the medieval warhorse, Ann Hyland notes the importance of ‘destriers [warhorses], coursers, rounceys, palfrey and packhorses’.
- The Sun reports the surprising news that reliable waddling packhorse Dirk Kuyt doesn't really want to play for Liverpool any more and would like to be reunited with his goateed personal organ grinder Rafa Benítez at Internazionale. Football transfer rumours: Charles N'Zogbia to Birmingham?
- Most of the courtiers and other members of the entourage rode, while baggage and other goods were carried on packhorses.
