bathorse
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French bat (“packsaddle”) (compare cheval de bat (“packhorse”)) + English horse. See bastard and batman.
Noun
[edit]bathorse (plural bathorses)
- (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.
- 1857 Washington Irving, Life Of George Washington Vol IV
References
[edit]- “bathorse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.