英语词汇“pack、horse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

pack-horse

释义

ˈpack-ˌhorse
[f. pack n.¹ + horse n.]
A horse used for carrying packs or bundles of goods.
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 757/38 Hic saginarius, a pakhors [printed palhors].1552Huloet, Packehorse or mule, clitellarius.1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 481 Two hundred Horsemen in Moscovie, require three hundred Packe-horses.1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xxvi. (1841) I. 260 Carriage by packhorses and by wagons.1859Thackeray Virgin. i, Strings of pack-horses that had not yet left the road.
b. fig. A drudge.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 122, I was a packe-horse in his great affaires.1693Wood Life 27 Nov. (O.H.S.) III. 436 He has been a packhorse in the practical and old galenical way of physick.1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man ii. i, I'll be pack-horse to none of them.
c. attrib. and Comb.
1593Nashe Christs T. 65 b, Violent are most of our packe-horse Pulpit-men.a1703Pomfret Fortunate Compl. 44 He..pack-horse like, jogs on beneath his load.1791W. Bartram Carolina 384 The heat and the burning flies..such..as to excite compassion even in the hearts of pack-horsemen.1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 53 The old packhorse track from Kendal to Whitehaven.

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