Packhorse

"packhorse" were the only means of conveying information. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We try to limit 180 pounds to each packhorse not including the packsaddle and pads. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After the Great War, he made his way north and turned up in Wyoming with three saddle horses and one packhorse. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By the time he was four he would have been riding an old packhorse. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

A month-long horse trip from Colorado into Wyoming leading a single packhorse with light packs. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)

I can't vouch for that, but it is a Medieval packhorse bridge with refuges for pedestrians and still used by traffic today. ❋ Unknown (2008)

         I stumbled over a motorcycle that was leaking gasoline, and bumped into a shopping cart piled with junk, the ever-present shopping cart that had become the modern packhorse of the poor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The packhorse clopped behind; even its head was bowed. ❋ P.W. CATANESE (2010)

Mark saw the tide of fierce, fair men flow inboard, coaxing the loaded packhorse after them, and stowing their booty under the tiny foredeck and in the well between the benches. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A big-game guide, Butler had spent years bringing elk hunters on packhorse hunts deep in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness before taking a job at Big Velvet Game Ranch in Montana in the mid 1990s. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I can't believe how long they took to arrive, they must have gone on a packhorse or something.... ❋ Amy (2008)

It is not to be expected that a man who drudges on all his life in a laborious trade, should be more knowing in the variety of things done in the world than a packhorse, who is driven constantly forwards and backwards in a narrow lane and dirty road, only to market, should be skilled in the geography of the country. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I've been working like a packhorse the last three days on decidedly non-intellectual things: my job as a courier for sensitive stuff, where the company's chronic shortage of personnel has grown worse than usual; and my tax problems new and old. ❋ Mike L (2007)