bathorse

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

bathorse (plural bathorses)

  1. A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign. Also spelt bat-horse and bat horse.
    • 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bathorse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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