bathorse

See also: en, bat-horse, and bat horse

English

Alternative forms

• bat-horse, bat horse

Etymology

From French bat (“packsaddle”) (compare cheval de bat (“packhorse”)) + English horse. See bastard and batman.

Noun

bathorse (plural bathorses)

1. (obsolete) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign
   • 1857 Washington Irving, Life Of George Washington Vol IV

     About ten o’clock the wagons and bat horses laden with Indian corn were returning, covered by a party of infantry, with Tarleton and his dragoons as a rear-guard.

References

• “bathorse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• bohrates